Wednesday, December 21, 2016

Behavior. Stimulus. Response.

BEHAVIOR is the way an ORGANISM reacts to a STIMULUS.

YOU BEHAVE IN RESPONSE TO A DIFFERENT KIND OF STIMULI. 

STIMULUS - SINGULAR.
STIMULI - PLURAL.
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STIMULUS - any kind of information / signal  external / internal that can be detected by organism.

RESPONSE - REACTION TO A STIMULUS.


HABITUATION - ignoring neither positive nor negative stimuli. 
If the animal wasn't rewarded or punished for something it did, it just stops producing any type of behavior and spends its energy on something more efficient.

LEARNING - CHANGING THE BEHAVIOR AS A RESULT OF EXPERIENCE, 



1) what produces behavior in animals? stimulus
2) what is innate behavior? instinct / inborn (WEB BUILDING BY SPIDER)
3) What are the major types of learning? habituation, classical conditioning, operant conditioning, insight learning. 

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