fixed action pattern

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fixed action pattern

a stereotyped behavioural response.

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Regardless of the presence of experience-dependent behavior, we can still hypothesize that specific factors, or sign stimuli, can also elicit hunting behavior in older cuttlefish, because the response of adult cuttlefish to mysids is similar to that of newly hatched cuttlefish (Messenger, 1968).

Visual Stimuli for the Induction of Hunting Behavior in Cuttlefish Sepia pharaonis

Contextual conditioning and the control of copulatory behavior by species-specific sign stimuli in male Japanese quail.

Behavior systems approach: a better explanation for sexual conditioning studies

In the present study, species-specific female cues were used to investigate learning about sign stimuli in a sexual Pavlovian conditioning paradigm.

Sign stimuli are innately recognized stimuli that elicit a specific behavioral response.

SPECIES-SPECIFIC FEMALE CUES CONTROL CONDITIONED SEXUAL APPROACH OF MALE JAPANESE QUAIL (COTURNIX JAPONICA)