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Understanding Animal Behavior: Concepts, Theories, and Research Methods

This comprehensive overview explores key vocabulary related to animal behavior, including innate and learned behaviors, instincts, and responses to stimuli. Learn about scientific methods used to study these behaviors, such as validation and the importance of data collection. Gain insights into phenomena like migration and hibernation, as well as concepts like habituation and imprinting. Discover how conditioning can alter behavior through rewards or punishments. This knowledge is essential for understanding the complexity of animal interactions with their environments.

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Understanding Animal Behavior: Concepts, Theories, and Research Methods

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  1. Vocabulary Words Animal Behavior

  2. Scientific Method Vocabulary • Theory • A well-tested explanation that makes sense of a great variety of observations • Data • Recorded observations • Fact • An indisputable observation • Constant • Conditions in an experiment that are the same for both the control group and the experimental group • Validity • A measure of the reliability of your research

  3. Vocabulary for Animal Behavior • Innate behavior – a behavior that is performed correctly by all members of a species, even if they have no previous experience with the behavior • Migration in birds; hibernation in bears • Pre-programmed • Instinctive • Reflexive

  4. Vocabulary for Animal Behavior • Learned behavior – a change in behavior resulting from experience

  5. Vocabulary for Animal Behavior • Stimulus – something that causes a response

  6. Vocabulary for Animal Behavior • Habituation – takes place when an animal learns not to respond to a repeated stimulus that contains little or no important information

  7. Vocabulary for Animal Behavior • Imprinting – learning that is limited to a specific time period in an animal’s life that is usually irreversible • Konrad Lorenz

  8. Vocabulary for Animal Behavior • Conditioning – when an animal learns that a particular stimulus or response is linked to a reward or punishment • Pavlov’s Dog

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