instinctive behavior

...Conflict behavior also includes redirected behavior, in which the result of opposing impulses is aggression toward another target (for example, when an individual attacked by a superior individual aggresses toward a subordinate individual), and displacement behavior, in which a completely different behavior is displayed (for example, when an individual suddenly starts eating food during a fight).
The role of learning in behavior
Releasers and innate releasing mechanisms are genetically determined by each species of animal, and the behavior that emerges as a result is called innate behavior (previously called instinctive behavior, but the term is no longer used today due to the ambiguity of the concept of instinct). On the other hand, there are certainly behaviors that are shaped by experience and learning, and these are called learned behaviors. …

*Some of the terminology that mentions "instinctive behavior" is listed below.

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…相対立する衝動の拮抗の結果，別の対象に行動を向ける転嫁行動redirected behavior(例えば上位の個体に攻撃された個体が下位の個体に攻撃を向ける場合)やまったく別種の行動が現れる転位行動displacement behavior(例えば闘争の最中に突然餌を食べはじめるような場合)も葛藤行動に含まれる。
【行動における学習の役割】
　リリーサーと生得的解発機構はそれぞれの動物の種によって遺伝的にきまっており，それによって現れる行動を生得的行動innate behaviorと呼ぶ(従来これは本能行動instinctive behaviorと呼ばれたものであるが，本能という概念のあいまいさゆえに今日では用いられなくなった)。これに対して経験や学習によって形づくられる行動も確かにあり，それらを学習行動または習得行動learned behaviorと呼ぶ。…

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