When a goose spots an egg outside of its nest, the goose gets out of the nest and rolls the egg back. Once started, a goose continues the egg-retrieval movement all the way back to the nest, even if the egg is taken away during the process. This is called:

a) step-wise reproductive collaboration.
b) repeated pattern fixation.
c) a fixed action pattern.
d) prepared learning.
e) supernormal stimulus.


Ans: c) a fixed action pattern.

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