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Understanding Innate and Learned Behaviors in Animals

This lesson explores the concept of animal behaviors, distinguishing between innate (instinctual) and learned behaviors. Topics covered include stimuli, types of questions scientists ask, benefits of behaviors, and categorization into innate and learned types. Students will engage in activities to differentiate between the two types of behaviors.

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Understanding Innate and Learned Behaviors in Animals

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  1. Aim: SWBAT differentiate between learned and innate behaviors Please Do Now: 1) Write a sentence about what you did over break 2) Write down something that you do instinctually

  2. Agenda • Do Now • Animal Behavior Intro Video • Notes • Crow behavior video • Experimental Design

  3. What is behavior? • A behavior is an action or series of actions performed by an animal in response to a stimulus. • The stimulus might be something in the environment, such as a sound, a smell, a color, or another individual. • The stimulus can also be related to the internal state of the animal, such as being hungry or cold. • Scientists studying behavior investigate two kinds of questions. • “How” a behavior is triggered, controlled, and performed. • “Why” a behavior exists. • Behavior scientists (called ethologists) seek to identify the benefits (to fitness) of a particular behavior.

  4. What are the different kinds of behavior? • Scientists generally break down animal behaviors into either innate behaviors or learned behaviors

  5. What are innate behaviors? • Determined entirely by the genes an organism receives from its parents: instincts and fixed action patterns

  6. What are learned behaviors? • Behaviors that the environment influences to some degree. They will not be displayed by all organisms of the species from birth

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