Animals have automatic behavior patterns {fixed-action pattern} {modal action pattern} that start by stimulus {sign stimulus}. Animals react to external or internal stimuli with inherited related-reflex patterns {innate behavior} {instinct}|.
properties
Fixed-action patterns are hereditary, specific, and complex responses to external or internal stimuli. Innate behaviors happen without training and are more probable the longer the time since the previous one. Animals perform them completely once started.
effects
Fixed-action patterns can remove drive or need.
will
Fixed-action patterns can be partially under voluntary control.
motivation
Instinctive action is its own motivation.
emotion
Instinctive action seems to have emotion.
goals
Instinctive action has no goals or reasons.
behaviors
Most animals never produce new behaviors but only link new stimuli to innate behaviors.
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