Innate
Innate Behaviour is "an instinct inherent foot of a living organism toward a particular behaviour". Innate Behaviour is categorised into two types of Behaviours; simple & complex. The simple behaviours are further categorised Reflex, Kinesis and Taxis. Reflex behaviour is an automatic instinctive that reacts to a stimulus (such as a muscle or a gland cell). Kinesis is is a change in the speed or direction. Taxis is a movement directly toward (positive) or away from (negative) a stimulus (cat running away from a dog). The complex behaviours are categorised into Migration, Orientation and Fixed Action Pattern. Innate migration is the ability for some animals to beable to travel from A to B annually (Sharp-tailed shandpiper migrating from Australia to Alaska). Orientation Behaviors are coordinated movements (walking, flying, swimming, etc.) that occur to a response to an external stimulus. Fixed Action Pattern Behaviour is a sequence of coordinated movements that are performed together without interruption (a praying mantis striking at prey).
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Learned
Learned behaviour is something that occurs as a result of experience. There are five subcategories in Learned behaviour, they are Habituation, Classical Conditioning, Instrumental and Latent. Habituation learning is is learning to ignore stimulus that are unimportant (wind, background noise, etc). Classical Conditioning is learning to associate one stimulus with another (colour, smell). Instrumental Learning is an animal's ability to remember what happend is the past and modify future behavior accordingly. Latent Learning is the memory of patterns or events when there is no reward or punishment with the behavior. Imprinting is learning that occurs early in life.
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