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strangeaffliction

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A salmon returns to its home stream to spawn. What term best applies to this behavior?
A) sign stimulus
B) cognition
C) imprinting
D) classical conditioning
E) operant conditioning


Celeste

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Reply #1 on: May 30, 2019
C


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