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Behavior
Introduction to Veterinary Technology
Question | Answer |
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Behavior modification programs | Training courses that use rewards and reprimands to stimulate changes in behavior |
Behaviorism | The ethological approach that states behavior is learn rather than genetically programmed |
Breaking litter box training | when a cat urinates or defecates someplace other than its litter box |
Classical conditioning | The type of conditined learning that associates stimuli ossurring that approximately the same time or in roughly the same area |
Classical ethology | The ethological approach asserting that much of what animals know is instinctive or innate |
Conditioned stimulus | Sensory input unrelated to a simple reflex behavior |
Dance | A complex pattern or movements performed by a bee that directs other bees to a food source |
Ethology | The study of animal behavior |
evolution | The scientific theory that characterizes all related organisms as descended from common ancestors |
Fixed action patterns | A term used by early ethologists to describe stereotypical or predictable behaviors of a species |
Function | In ethological terms, survival value |
Habituation | The process of learning that certain objects and events have little bearing on survival and can thus be ignored |
House soiling | Urinating or defecating inside the home |
Imprinting | The acquisition in the very young of certain fixed action patterns |
Innate | instinctive |
Instinct | Acomplex of unlerned responses characteristic of a species. |
Instrumental Learning | learning by trial and error |
Natural selection | The Process at awards survival and reproductive success to individuals and groups best adjusted to their environment |
Naturalists | Natural scientists |
Nature-nurture controversy | The crux of two opposing schools: classical ethology, which views animal behavior as primarily instinctive, and animal psychology, which views animal behavior as primarily learn |
Operant conditioning | The type of conditoned learning that associates a certain activity, known as the operant, with punishment or reward |
Operant | functioning or tending to produce effects |
postparturition of individuals | The process that allows animals to distinguish their place in a social context broader than their relationship with primary caregivers |
Sensitive period | a specific stage early in an animal's life when imprinting occurs |
Social behavior | The ways individual members of the same species interact with one another. |
Socialization | The process of adapting to contact with others |
Sociobiology | The study of the biological bases of social behavior |
Spraying | staining vertical surfaces with a strong-smelling urine |
Stimulus-response theory | the psychological school of thought stating that all complex forms of behavior, includig emotions, thoughts, and habits, are complex muscular and glandular responses that can be observed and measured |
Territorial | prone to defining and defending areas of sleep, eating, and play. |
Unconditioned response | a simple reflex behavior |
Unconditioned stimulus | sensory input that produces a simple reflex behavior |
Wobble | a training maneuver designed to disorient a bird by abruptly dropping the hand it's perched upon. |