learned behavior
Picked up habit
Learned behavior is conduct acquired through experience rather than inherited genetically.
The term appears in psychology and biology to distinguish actions shaped by environment, training, or observation from innate instincts: Language is learned behavior, The dog's tricks are learned behaviors.
The concept encompasses everything from conditioned responses to complex skills passed down through culture.
- Pavlov's dogClassically conditioned subject
- stimulus-responseInput-output behavioral pattern
- aversion therapyTreatment pairing unwanted behavior with discomfort
- reinforcementAdding support or encouragement
- extinctionComplete vanishing of a species
learned helplessness · punishment · habit formation · operant conditioning · modeling · trial and error · imitation · monkey see monkey do · critical thinking · enculturation · language acquisition · traditions · self-regulation · nature vs nurture · conditioned response · positive reinforcement · negative reinforcement · peer influence
- animal behaviorinstincts, conditioning, instinct, cognition, dominance
- habitshabit, habits, bad habit, study habits, rituals
- Conditioningconditioning, classical conditioning, operant, reinforcement, stimulus
- Human Developmentgrowth, heredity, aging, genetics, puberty
- instinctsinstinct, survival instinct, survival instincts, maternal instinct, gut instinct
- responsesresponse, answering, answer, reply, replying
learned behaviorinstinct
Innate behavioral tendency
instinctive behavior · natural instinct · fixed action pattern · inborn trait · biological drive
learned behaviorreflex
Involuntary stimulus response
fixed action pattern · automatic response · automatic reflex · knee-jerk reaction · gut reaction