which of the following is an example of an instinctive behavior?

An instinctive behavior is an action an organism is born knowing how to do, without having to learn or practice it. A classic example is a baby sea turtle automatically moving toward the ocean right after hatching.

What instinctive behavior means

• Instinctive behavior is innate , meaning it is present at birth and not learned from parents or experience.

• It is typically triggered by a specific stimulus, like light, sound, or movement, and tends to occur in a predictable way in all normal members of a species.

Clear examples of instinctive behavior

• Baby sea turtles crawling toward the sea immediately after emerging from their eggs.

• Birds building nests without being taught how to do it.

• Spiders spinning webs with a complex, species-typical pattern.

If in a multiple-choice question you see options like “a baby crying when hungry” or “a spider spinning a web,” those are the kinds of choices that count as instinctive behaviors, because they are inborn and do not require learning.