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PCAT Biology Animal Behavior
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1. Recovery of the conditioned response after extinction
Spontaneous Recovery
Classical/Pavlovian Conditioning
Hering-Breuer Reflex
Territoriality
2. Specific time periods during an animal's early development when it is physiologically able to develop specific behavioral patterns
Learning (lower animals)
Sneezing
Behavioral Display
Critical Periods
3. Involves stimulating the brain's pleasure centers with links the lack of pleasure
Innate
Negative Reinforcement
Barareceptor Reflexes
Positive Reinforcement/Reward
4. Triggered by irritation of the wall of the nasal cavity
Deflation Reflex
Sneezing
Learning (lower animals)
Chemoreceptor Reflexes
5. Rapid automatic response to a stimulus
Reflex
Olfactory Sense
Fixed-Action Patterns
Classical Conditioning (extinction)
6. 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
Spontaneous Recovery
Territoriality
Deflation Reflex
Learning (lower animals)
7. Include the elements of the environment that occur in familiar cyclic patterns
Punishment
Primer Phermones
Pseudoconditioning
External Modulators
8. Social hierarchy -minimizes violent intraspecific aggressions by defining stable relationships among members of the group
Chemoreceptor Reflexes
Reticular Activating system
Pecking Order
Spontaneous Recovery
9. Animals secrete phermones
Barareceptor Reflexes
Learning (lower animals)
Punishment
Olfactory Sense
10. Response is diminished and finally eliminated in the absence of reinforcement
Releaser Phermones
Instrumental/Operant conditioning (extinction)
Internal Control
Circadian Rhythms
11. Complex - coordinated - and innate behavior responses to specific patterns of stimulation in the environment -innate
Barareceptor Reflexes
Sneezing
Instrumental/Operant conditioning (extinction)
Fixed-Action Patterns
12. Alerts an animal to a significant stimulus -involves the interaction of reticular activating system
Territoriality
Phermones
Simple Reflex
Startle Response
13. The major share of the response to the environment
Protective Reflexes
Learning (higher animals)
Pseudoconditioning
Reflex
14. Includes providing food - light - or electrical stimulation of the brain's 'pleasure centers.'
Positive Reinforcement/Reward
Stimulus Discrimination
Releaser
Complex Reflexes
15. 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
Circadian Rhythms
Classical Conditioning (extinction)
Internal Control
Stimulus Discrimination
16. Submission display -ex: happy dog wagging tail
Intraspecific Interactions
Neurologic Development
Agnostic Displays
Spontaneous Recovery
17. 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
Primer Phermones
Critical Periods
Fixed-Action Patterns
Simple Reflex
18. Complex reflex - learned motor pattern -ex: step on brakes when animal runs in front
Agnostic Displays
Acquired Reflex
Complex Reflexes
Pseudoconditioning
19. Ex: coughing and sneezing -operate on the exposure to chemical irritants - toxic vapors - or mechanical stimulation of the respiratory system
Intraspecific Interactions
Protective Reflexes
Learned behavior
Classical/Pavlovian Conditioning
20. Affect systemic blood pressure and stimulate the respiratory rate when blood pressure declines
Critical Periods
Barareceptor Reflexes
Spontaneous Recovery
Reflex
21. Natural bodily rhythms of eating and satiation
Territoriality
Internal Control
Complex Reflexes
Olfactory Sense
22. Involves conditioning responses to stimuli with the Use of reward or reinforcement
Stimulus Discrimination
Learning (lower animals)
Operant/Instrumental Conditioning
Spontaneous Recovery
23. Produce long-term behavioral and physiological alterations in recipient animals ex: male mice may affect the estrous cycles of females
Circadian Rhythms
Classical Conditioning (extinction)
Primer Phermones
Pecking Order
24. Involves the association of a normally autonomic or visceral response with an environmental stimulus -aka Conditioned Reflex
Classical/Pavlovian Conditioning
Protective Reflexes
Acquired Reflex
Innate
25. Triggered by irritation of the larynx
Coughing
Reflex
Territoriality
Chemoreceptor Reflexes
26. Involves the suppression of the normal startle responses to stimuli -repeated stimulation will results in decreased resonsiveness to that stimulus
External Modulators
Habituation
Agnostic Displays
Pseudoconditioning
27. Innate behavior that has evolved as a signal for communication between members of the same species
Reticular Activating system
Complex Reflexes
Environmental Rhythms/Stimuli
Behavioral Display
28. 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
Complex Reflexes
Barareceptor Reflexes
Phermones
Imprinting
29. The gradual elimination of conditioned responses in the absence of reinforcement
Extinction (modification of conditioned behavior)
Stimulus Generalization
Spontaneous Recovery
Innate
30. Involves the ability of th learning organism to respond differentially to slightly different stimuli
Stimulus Discrimination
Simple Reflex
Behavioral Display
Critical Periods
31. Members of most land-dwelling species defend a limited area or territory from intrusion by other members of the species
Territoriality
Stimulus Generalization Gradient
Protective Reflexes
Classical Conditioning (extinction)
32. Involves adaptive responses to the environment
Complex Reflexes
Neurologic Development
Learned behavior
Hering-Breuer Reflex
33. Composed of two different reflexes: the inflation and deflation reflexes
Operant/Instrumental Conditioning
Hering-Breuer Reflex
Acquired Reflex
Classical/Pavlovian Conditioning
34. Specific behaviors found in all animals which involve the evolution of a variety of complex actions that function as signals in preparation for mating
Territoriality
Positive Reinforcement/Reward
Dominant member
Reproductive Displays
35. Inhibits the expiratory center and stimulates the inspirator center when the lungs are in danger of collapsing
Deflation Reflex
Coughing
Intraspecific Interactions
Positive Reinforcement/Reward
36. Trigger a reversible behavioral change in the recipient ex: sex attractant - alarm - toxic defensive
Releaser Phermones
Dominant member
Olfactory Sense
Agnostic Displays
37. Will prevail over a subordinate
Dominant member
Learning (lower animals)
Antagonistic behavior
Punishment
38. Relatively unlikely to be modified by learning
Antagonistic behavior
Territoriality function
Innate
Acquired Reflex
39. Stimulus that elicits the behavior of fixed action patterns
Coughing
Spontaneous Recovery
Stimulus Generalization Gradient
Releaser
40. Distributing members of the species so that environmental resources are not depleted in a small region - intraspecifc competition is reduced
Territoriality function
Environmental Rhythms/Stimuli
Releaser Phermones
Territoriality
41. Unconditioned stimulus is removed or was never sufficiently paired with the conditioned stimulus
Learned behavior
Operant/Instrumental Conditioning
Classical Conditioning (extinction)
Inflation Reflex
42. If the stimulus is no longer regularly applied - the response tends to recover over time
Spontaneous Recovery
Barareceptor Reflexes
Innate
Pecking Order
43. Involves conditioning an organism so that it will stop exhibiting a given behavior pattern
Punishment
Deflation Reflex
Innate
Barareceptor Reflexes
44. System of interactions of many neurons involving the startle response
Classical Conditioning (extinction)
Dominant member
Reticular Activating system
Environmental Rhythms/Stimuli
45. Established after the organism has been conditioned - whereby stimuli further and further away from the original conditioned stimulus elicit responses with decreasing magnitued
Stimulus Generalization Gradient
Chemoreceptor Reflexes
Learning (lower animals)
Internal Control
46. Consisting of threat displays and combat that settles disputes between individuals in population ex: dog growling
Phermones
Stimulus Generalization
Antagonistic behavior
Deflation Reflex
47. Prevents overexpansion of the lungs during forceful breathing
Pecking Order
Coughing
Inflation Reflex
Territoriality function
48. Patterns of behavior that are established and maintained mainly by periodic situations -ex: response to a traffic light
Intraspecific Interactions
Learning (higher animals)
Spontaneous Recovery
Environmental Rhythms/Stimuli
49. Substance secreted by animals that influence the behavior of other members of the same species
Pseudoconditioning
Environmental Rhythms/Stimuli
Barareceptor Reflexes
Phermones
50. Involves neural integration at a higher level -ex: brainstem or even cerebrum
Positive Reinforcement/Reward
Complex Reflexes
Acquired Reflex
Territoriality