Innate Learned Behavior

Why is a spider spinning a web an innate behavior?

• It learns how to spin the web from its mother.

• It learns how to spin a web through insight learning.  

• It is born knowing how to spin a web.

• It learns how to spin a web through observational learning.

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

• innate behaviors

• learned behaviors

• acquired traits

• imprinted behaviors

Which is an example of a learned behavior?

• blinking

• riding a bike

• swallowing

• crying

Which of these is an example of a learned behavior?

• a parrot saying hello

• a robin singing on a spring morning

• a penguin building a nest of pebbles

• a weaver bird building a hanging nest

Which behavior is genetically based and NOT linked to past experiences?

• innate behavior

• habituation

• operant conditioning

• classical conditioning

An innate behavior can be described by which of the following?

• Must be learned

• Not necessary for survival

• Present at birth and performed correctly from the first time

• Learned from experiences

Behaviors that do not need to be taught.

• Innate Behaviors

• Learned Behaviors

• Trait

• Instinct

Look at the picture.
A dog that sits when told to.

• inherited

• learned

Look at the picture.
This kitten thinks this dog is her mother.

• Conditioning

• Imprinting

• Inherited

Look at the picture.
Ducklings following a man since birth.

• Conditioning

• Imprinting

• Inherited

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