Innate Learned Behavior

Which of these is not an instinctive behavior?

• a bird building a nest

• a turtle burying its eggs

• a bear hibernating in winter

• a horse pulling a plow

Behaviors that are passed on from parents to offspring without teaching or training are called what?

• inherited or innate behaviors

• learned behaviors

• acquired traits

• imprinted behaviors

TADPOLES KNOWING HOW TO SWIM AND AVOID DANGER AS SOON AS THEY ARE BORN IS AN EXAMPLE OF ..

• LEARNED BEHAVIOR

• INNATE BEHAVIOR

Baby birds in due time peck at only food particles is an example of

• learned behavior

• Innate behavior

What do we call a behavior that is learned from observations?

• inherited behaviors

• learned behaviors

• imprinting

• acquired traits

A scientist observes sea otters using rocks to break open clamshells. Which of these investigations would best help the scientist determine whether this skill is a learned or an inherited behavior?

• Determining what sizes and kinds of rocks are used most often by sea otters

• Determining whether shellfish are an important food source in the diet of sea otters

• Raising young sea otters away from adult otters that use rocks and observing whether the young otters use rocks

• Observing families of sea otters over time to see whether adults that use rocks have offspring that use rocks

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Fish swimming is a .....

• Innate Behaviour

• Learned Behaviour

Which of the following is an example of innate behavior?

• A) A dog salivating when it sees food

• B) A child learning to ride a bicycle

• C) A parrot mimicking human speech

• D) A cat using a litter box

What type of behavior is demonstrated by a spider spinning a web?

• A) Learned behavior

• B) Innate behavior

• C) Imprinted behavior

• D) Acquired behavior

Which behavior is most likely to be innate rather than learned?

• A) A bird learning to sing a specific song

• B) A human learning a new language

• C) A fish swimming upstream to spawn

• D) A dog being trained to fetch