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PCAT Biology Animal Behavior
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1. Involves the ability of th learning organism to respond differentially to slightly different stimuli
Stimulus Discrimination
Reflex
Behavioral Display
Learning (higher animals)
2. Involves the association of a normally autonomic or visceral response with an environmental stimulus -aka Conditioned Reflex
Hering-Breuer Reflex
Territoriality
Punishment
Classical/Pavlovian Conditioning
3. Substance secreted by animals that influence the behavior of other members of the same species
Phermones
Reproductive Displays
Primer Phermones
Releaser
4. Produce long-term behavioral and physiological alterations in recipient animals ex: male mice may affect the estrous cycles of females
Barareceptor Reflexes
Primer Phermones
Spontaneous Recovery
Pseudoconditioning
5. Test of conditioning is the determination of whether the condition process is actually necessary for the production of a response by a previously 'neutral stimulus'
Pseudoconditioning
Learning (higher animals)
Territoriality function
Territoriality
6. The ability of a conditioned organism to respond to stimuli that are similar but not identical - to the original conditioned stimulus
Stimulus Generalization
Pseudoconditioning
Critical Periods
Spontaneous Recovery
7. Response is diminished and finally eliminated in the absence of reinforcement
Neurologic Development
Spontaneous Recovery
Classical Conditioning (extinction)
Instrumental/Operant conditioning (extinction)
8. Distributing members of the species so that environmental resources are not depleted in a small region - intraspecifc competition is reduced
Simple Reflex
Extinction (modification of conditioned behavior)
Territoriality function
Learned behavior
9. Composed of two different reflexes: the inflation and deflation reflexes
Coughing
Classical/Pavlovian Conditioning
Hering-Breuer Reflex
Spontaneous Recovery
10. System of interactions of many neurons involving the startle response
Reticular Activating system
Barareceptor Reflexes
Primer Phermones
Agnostic Displays
11. The capacity of the nervous system - particularly the cebral cortex - for flexibility -correlated with the capacity for learning adaptive responses
Neurologic Development
Extinction (modification of conditioned behavior)
Habituation
Reflex
12. Recovery of the conditioned response after extinction
Territoriality
Spontaneous Recovery
Pseudoconditioning
External Modulators
13. Natural bodily rhythms of eating and satiation
Operant/Instrumental Conditioning
Internal Control
Deflation Reflex
Dominant member
14. Triggered by irritation of the wall of the nasal cavity
Primer Phermones
Learned behavior
Classical Conditioning (extinction)
Sneezing
15. The gradual elimination of conditioned responses in the absence of reinforcement
Learned behavior
Extinction (modification of conditioned behavior)
Habituation
Imprinting
16. Animals secrete phermones
Releaser
Dominant member
Classical Conditioning (extinction)
Olfactory Sense
17. Specific time periods during an animal's early development when it is physiologically able to develop specific behavioral patterns
Circadian Rhythms
Inflation Reflex
External Modulators
Critical Periods
18. Innate behavior that has evolved as a signal for communication between members of the same species
Inflation Reflex
Imprinting
Behavioral Display
Spontaneous Recovery
19. Complex - coordinated - and innate behavior responses to specific patterns of stimulation in the environment -innate
Inflation Reflex
Dominant member
External Modulators
Fixed-Action Patterns
20. Involves conditioning responses to stimuli with the Use of reward or reinforcement
Extinction (modification of conditioned behavior)
Operant/Instrumental Conditioning
Sneezing
Stimulus Generalization
21. Will prevail over a subordinate
Spontaneous Recovery
Dominant member
Reflex
Territoriality
22. If the stimulus is no longer regularly applied - the response tends to recover over time
Spontaneous Recovery
Deflation Reflex
Stimulus Discrimination
Complex Reflexes
23. Daily cycles that when isolated from the natural phases of light and dark - they'll continue with approximate day-to-day phasing -have both internal/external
Primer Phermones
Circadian Rhythms
Territoriality function
Extinction (modification of conditioned behavior)
24. Alerts an animal to a significant stimulus -involves the interaction of reticular activating system
Startle Response
Spontaneous Recovery
Reproductive Displays
Hering-Breuer Reflex
25. Involves stimulating the brain's pleasure centers with links the lack of pleasure
Negative Reinforcement
Classical Conditioning (extinction)
Antagonistic behavior
Learning (higher animals)
26. Trigger a reversible behavioral change in the recipient ex: sex attractant - alarm - toxic defensive
Operant/Instrumental Conditioning
Classical Conditioning (extinction)
Reticular Activating system
Releaser Phermones
27. Ex: coughing and sneezing -operate on the exposure to chemical irritants - toxic vapors - or mechanical stimulation of the respiratory system
Protective Reflexes
Reflex
Territoriality
Environmental Rhythms/Stimuli
28. Members of most land-dwelling species defend a limited area or territory from intrusion by other members of the species
Territoriality
Dominant member
Primer Phermones
Simple Reflex
29. Complex reflex - learned motor pattern -ex: step on brakes when animal runs in front
Territoriality function
Acquired Reflex
Stimulus Generalization Gradient
Phermones
30. Includes providing food - light - or electrical stimulation of the brain's 'pleasure centers.'
Positive Reinforcement/Reward
Learning (lower animals)
Territoriality function
Releaser Phermones
31. Triggered by irritation of the larynx
Coughing
Learning (lower animals)
Acquired Reflex
Territoriality function
32. Involves adaptive responses to the environment
Stimulus Discrimination
Negative Reinforcement
Learned behavior
Barareceptor Reflexes
33. Rapid automatic response to a stimulus
Deflation Reflex
Inflation Reflex
Acquired Reflex
Reflex
34. Submission display -ex: happy dog wagging tail
Classical Conditioning (extinction)
Agnostic Displays
Pecking Order
Classical/Pavlovian Conditioning
35. The major share of the response to the environment
Learning (higher animals)
Fixed-Action Patterns
Reflex
Internal Control
36. Prevents overexpansion of the lungs during forceful breathing
Classical Conditioning (extinction)
Inflation Reflex
Reticular Activating system
Releaser Phermones
37. Process in which environmental patterns or objects presented to a devleoping organism during a brief critical period in early life become accepted permanently as an element of their behavioral environment and included in an animal's behavioral respon
Spontaneous Recovery
Imprinting
Complex Reflexes
Startle Response
38. Include the elements of the environment that occur in familiar cyclic patterns
Circadian Rhythms
Classical/Pavlovian Conditioning
External Modulators
Stimulus Generalization Gradient
39. Inhibits the expiratory center and stimulates the inspirator center when the lungs are in danger of collapsing
Positive Reinforcement/Reward
Stimulus Discrimination
Spontaneous Recovery
Deflation Reflex
40. Instinctual or innate behaviors that are predominant determinants of behavior patterns - and learning plays a relatively minor role in the modification of these predetermined behaviors
Learning (lower animals)
Circadian Rhythms
Stimulus Generalization Gradient
Simple Reflex
41. Occur as a means of communication between members of a species
Behavioral Display
Learning (higher animals)
Positive Reinforcement/Reward
Intraspecific Interactions
42. Patterns of behavior that are established and maintained mainly by periodic situations -ex: response to a traffic light
Pecking Order
Simple Reflex
Reflex
Environmental Rhythms/Stimuli
43. Involves conditioning an organism so that it will stop exhibiting a given behavior pattern
Chemoreceptor Reflexes
Punishment
Intraspecific Interactions
Inflation Reflex
44. Specific behaviors found in all animals which involve the evolution of a variety of complex actions that function as signals in preparation for mating
Releaser Phermones
Reproductive Displays
Spontaneous Recovery
Operant/Instrumental Conditioning
45. Stimulated by changes in pH - PCO2 - and PO2
Learned behavior
Territoriality
Extinction (modification of conditioned behavior)
Chemoreceptor Reflexes
46. Stimulus that elicits the behavior of fixed action patterns
Releaser
Deflation Reflex
Inflation Reflex
Spontaneous Recovery
47. Controlled at the spinal chord -the reabsorption of water in this zone of the kidney - which permits the concentration of urine - dpeends on the permeability of the collecting tubules to water
Complex Reflexes
Primer Phermones
Fixed-Action Patterns
Simple Reflex
48. Affect systemic blood pressure and stimulate the respiratory rate when blood pressure declines
Behavioral Display
Barareceptor Reflexes
Stimulus Discrimination
Coughing
49. Social hierarchy -minimizes violent intraspecific aggressions by defining stable relationships among members of the group
Pseudoconditioning
Spontaneous Recovery
Circadian Rhythms
Pecking Order
50. Unconditioned stimulus is removed or was never sufficiently paired with the conditioned stimulus
Barareceptor Reflexes
Classical Conditioning (extinction)
Punishment
Intraspecific Interactions