"instinctive behavior" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in contexts where someone or something acts in a reflexive or innate manner, without conscious thought or decision-making. This phrase can be used in various types of writing, such as in scientific or academic papers, in literature, or in everyday language. Example: The mother duck's instinctive behavior kicked in as she gathered her ducklings under her wings to protect them from the approaching storm.
He recognized that learning is not something that is superimposed upon instinct, but that it itself arises out of instinct and serves, among other things, to modify and refine instinctive behavior patterns to suit present conditions.
Not instinctive behavior like a squirrel burying nuts, but planning that shows the animal is considering what its mental state will be at a later time.
He comes across as a David Attenborough type, taking great, contagious pleasure in the careful observation of these small creatures, parsing their instinctive behavior and delighting in their high jinks.
We categorized the sensor values into cognitive, emotional, and behavioral categories, depending on which sensors are closely related to cognition, emotion or instinctive behavior.
Instinctive behavior was thought to be composed of identifiable units– 'fixed action patterns' — whose evolution could be studied like that of a bone by comparing the different form taken by the same (homologous) behavior in different species.
This is considered an instinctive behavior, preventing inbreeding.
Well-documented functions of REM sleep include thermoregulation and the development of cortical structures in birds and mammals, as well as neurotransmitter repletion, the reconstruction and maintenance of little-used brain circuits, the structural development of the brain in early developmental phases, as well as the preparation of a repertoire of reflexive or instinctive behaviors (Hobson 2009).
The more threatened and unsafe we feel, the stronger these instinctive behaviors become.
In the most complex organisms, instinctive behaviors may be "goal-corrected" with continual on-course adjustments (such as a bird of prey adjusting its flight to the movements of the prey).
However, the brain circuits that organize species- and sex-specific instinctive behaviors in response to animal cues are still poorly characterized.
7, 8 Especially in warm-blooded animals, finding and eating food is a daily necessity that is very high in the hierarchy of instinctive behaviors even when scarce and dangerous environmental conditions must be overcome.
