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Mind Map by kirareynolds, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by kirareynolds
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Innate Behaviour
- Instinct or innate behavior is the inherent inclination of a living organism toward a particular complex behavior.
- Genetically determined
and so environment has no
impact on behavioural
response.
- Rigid and infexible
- Patterns of
behaviour are the
same in all
members of the
same species
- Organism probably has no
sense of the purpose of the
behaviour
- Genetically determined
and so environment has no
impact on behavioural
response.
- Examples of Innate Behaviour
- Reflexes
- Escape Reflex - the function
of which is to avoid predators
- Involuntary responses which
follow a specific pattern in
response to a given stimuli
- Escape Reflex - the function
of which is to avoid predators
- Kineses
- An orientation behaviour where the rate of
movement increases when the organism is in
unfavourable conditions.
- Non-directional
- An orientation behaviour where the rate of
movement increases when the organism is in
unfavourable conditions.
- Taxes
- A directional orientation response.
- Positive phototaxis
is towards the light
stimulus and
negative phototaxis
is away.
- Positive chemotaxis is
towards the chemical
stimulus and negative
chemotaxis is away.
- A directional orientation response.
- Reflexes
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