What type of behavior is learned through experience?

Conditioned behavior is learned through experience as it involves changes in behavior resulting from interaction with the environment. This type of behavior arises through processes such as conditioning, where an individual learns to associate certain stimuli with specific responses. For example, through classical conditioning, an animal might learn to associate a sound with the arrival of food, leading to a learned response of salivation.

In contrast, inborn behavior, instinctive behavior, and reflexive behavior do not rely on learning from experience. Inborn behavior refers to actions that are genetically hardwired and do not require prior experience—these are innate. Instinctive behavior involves complex patterns of activity that are typically triggered by specific stimuli and typically occur in a predictable manner across members of a species, again without the need for learning. Reflexive behavior consists of simple, automatic responses to stimuli, such as pulling a hand away from a hot surface, which are not learned but rather biologically pre-programmed reactions.