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VTech Behavior
Vet Tech Behavior Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What are Behavior Modification Programs? | Training courses that use rewards and reprimands to stimulate changes in behavior |
| What is Behaviorism? | Ethological approach that states behavior is learned rather than genetically programmed |
| What is Classical Conditioning? | Type of conditioned learning that associates stimuli occurring at approximately the same time or in roughly the same area for example, bell rings when food is brought |
| What is Classical Ethology? | Ethological approach asserting that much of what animals know is instinctive or innate |
| What is a Conditioned Stimulus? | Sensory input unrelated to a simple reflex behavior, for example, the dogs mouth waters to the sound of a bell |
| What is a Dance? | Complex pattern of movements performed by a bee that directs other bees to a food source |
| What is Ethology? | Study of Animal Behavior |
| What is Evolution? | Scientific theory that charactorizes all related organisms as descended from common ancestors |
| What are Fixed Action Patterns? | Term used by early ethologists to describe stereotypical or predictable behaviors of a species |
| What does Function mean in Ethological terms? | Survival Value |
| What is Habituation? | Process of learning that certain objects and events have little bearing on survival and can be ignored |
| What is House Soiling? | Urinating or Defecating inside the home |
| What is Imprinting? | Acquisition in the very young of certain fixed action patterns |
| What is meant by the term Innate? | Instinctive |
| What is Instinct? | Complex of unlearned responses charactoristic of a species |
| What is Instrumental Learning? | Learning by trial and error |
| What is Natural Selection? | Process that awards survival and reproductive success to individuals and groups best adjusted to their environment |
| What are Naturalists? | Natural Scientists |
| What is the Nature-Nurture Controversy? | Classical ethology views animal behavior as primarily instinctive where as animal psychology views animal behavior as primarily learned |
| What is Operant Conditioning? | Type of conditional learning that associates a certain activity, known as the operant, with punishment or reward |
| What is an Operant? | Functioning or tending to produce effects |
| What is Postparturition? | Period after giving birth to offspring |
| What is Recognition of Individuals? | Process that allows animals to distinguish their place in a social context broader then their relationship with primary caregivers |
| What is the Sensitive Period? | Specific stage early in an animals life when imprinting occurs |
| What is Social Behavior? | Ways individual members of the same species interact with one another |
| What is Socialization? | Process of adapting to contact with others |
| What is Sociobiology? | Study of the biological bases of social behavior |
| What is Spraying? | Staining vertical surfaces with a strong smelling urine |
| What is the Stimulus Response Theory? | All complex forms of behavior (including emotions, thoughts, and habits) are complex muscular and glandular responses that can be observed and measured |
| What does Territorial mean? | Prone to defining and defending areas of sleep, eating, exercising and play |
| What is an Unconditioned Response? | A simple reflex behavior |
| What is an Unconditioned Stimulus? | Sensory input that produces a simple reflex behavior |
| What is meant by the term Wobble? | Training maneuver designed to disorient a bird by abruptly dropping the hand its perched upon |
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Misty Lynn
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