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PCAT Biology Animal Behavior
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1. The gradual elimination of conditioned responses in the absence of reinforcement
Pseudoconditioning
Extinction (modification of conditioned behavior)
Coughing
Chemoreceptor Reflexes
2. Stimulated by changes in pH - PCO2 - and PO2
Neurologic Development
Barareceptor Reflexes
Chemoreceptor Reflexes
Operant/Instrumental Conditioning
3. Trigger a reversible behavioral change in the recipient ex: sex attractant - alarm - toxic defensive
Positive Reinforcement/Reward
Chemoreceptor Reflexes
Complex Reflexes
Releaser Phermones
4. Involves neural integration at a higher level -ex: brainstem or even cerebrum
Complex Reflexes
Deflation Reflex
Environmental Rhythms/Stimuli
Fixed-Action Patterns
5. Involves the suppression of the normal startle responses to stimuli -repeated stimulation will results in decreased resonsiveness to that stimulus
Habituation
Behavioral Display
Fixed-Action Patterns
Environmental Rhythms/Stimuli
6. Triggered by irritation of the wall of the nasal cavity
Sneezing
Critical Periods
Behavioral Display
Deflation Reflex
7. Complex - coordinated - and innate behavior responses to specific patterns of stimulation in the environment -innate
Fixed-Action Patterns
Reticular Activating system
Acquired Reflex
Protective Reflexes
8. Rapid automatic response to a stimulus
Inflation Reflex
Reflex
Habituation
Neurologic Development
9. Involves stimulating the brain's pleasure centers with links the lack of pleasure
Complex Reflexes
Negative Reinforcement
Learned behavior
Spontaneous Recovery
10. Established after the organism has been conditioned - whereby stimuli further and further away from the original conditioned stimulus elicit responses with decreasing magnitued
External Modulators
Stimulus Generalization Gradient
Reflex
Spontaneous Recovery
11. Response is diminished and finally eliminated in the absence of reinforcement
Learning (lower animals)
Instrumental/Operant conditioning (extinction)
Stimulus Discrimination
Pseudoconditioning
12. The ability of a conditioned organism to respond to stimuli that are similar but not identical - to the original conditioned stimulus
Stimulus Generalization
Learning (higher animals)
Agnostic Displays
Hering-Breuer Reflex
13. Specific behaviors found in all animals which involve the evolution of a variety of complex actions that function as signals in preparation for mating
Punishment
Fixed-Action Patterns
Reproductive Displays
Hering-Breuer Reflex
14. Relatively unlikely to be modified by learning
Extinction (modification of conditioned behavior)
Inflation Reflex
Sneezing
Innate
15. Unconditioned stimulus is removed or was never sufficiently paired with the conditioned stimulus
Classical Conditioning (extinction)
Fixed-Action Patterns
Behavioral Display
Barareceptor Reflexes
16. Includes providing food - light - or electrical stimulation of the brain's 'pleasure centers.'
Behavioral Display
Classical/Pavlovian Conditioning
Deflation Reflex
Positive Reinforcement/Reward
17. Complex reflex - learned motor pattern -ex: step on brakes when animal runs in front
Spontaneous Recovery
Acquired Reflex
Learning (higher animals)
Habituation
18. Alerts an animal to a significant stimulus -involves the interaction of reticular activating system
Startle Response
External Modulators
Deflation Reflex
Reproductive Displays
19. Involves the association of a normally autonomic or visceral response with an environmental stimulus -aka Conditioned Reflex
Spontaneous Recovery
Classical/Pavlovian Conditioning
Punishment
Innate
20. Distributing members of the species so that environmental resources are not depleted in a small region - intraspecifc competition is reduced
Territoriality function
Behavioral Display
Olfactory Sense
Stimulus Discrimination
21. Inhibits the expiratory center and stimulates the inspirator center when the lungs are in danger of collapsing
Positive Reinforcement/Reward
Deflation Reflex
Critical Periods
Complex Reflexes
22. Affect systemic blood pressure and stimulate the respiratory rate when blood pressure declines
Barareceptor Reflexes
Coughing
Environmental Rhythms/Stimuli
Spontaneous Recovery
23. Specific time periods during an animal's early development when it is physiologically able to develop specific behavioral patterns
Critical Periods
Spontaneous Recovery
Punishment
Releaser
24. Natural bodily rhythms of eating and satiation
Coughing
Instrumental/Operant conditioning (extinction)
Internal Control
Territoriality function
25. Patterns of behavior that are established and maintained mainly by periodic situations -ex: response to a traffic light
Classical Conditioning (extinction)
Startle Response
Environmental Rhythms/Stimuli
Neurologic Development
26. Members of most land-dwelling species defend a limited area or territory from intrusion by other members of the species
Territoriality
Sneezing
Fixed-Action Patterns
Negative Reinforcement
27. Social hierarchy -minimizes violent intraspecific aggressions by defining stable relationships among members of the group
Stimulus Generalization
Simple Reflex
Pecking Order
Releaser Phermones
28. Involves conditioning responses to stimuli with the Use of reward or reinforcement
Behavioral Display
Olfactory Sense
Habituation
Operant/Instrumental Conditioning
29. Consisting of threat displays and combat that settles disputes between individuals in population ex: dog growling
Antagonistic behavior
Deflation Reflex
External Modulators
Pseudoconditioning
30. Substance secreted by animals that influence the behavior of other members of the same species
Startle Response
Phermones
Classical/Pavlovian Conditioning
Circadian Rhythms
31. Animals secrete phermones
Learning (lower animals)
Olfactory Sense
Releaser Phermones
Reproductive Displays
32. Include the elements of the environment that occur in familiar cyclic patterns
Circadian Rhythms
Phermones
External Modulators
Agnostic Displays
33. Stimulus that elicits the behavior of fixed action patterns
Antagonistic behavior
Releaser
Sneezing
Primer Phermones
34. The capacity of the nervous system - particularly the cebral cortex - for flexibility -correlated with the capacity for learning adaptive responses
Primer Phermones
Territoriality
Reproductive Displays
Neurologic Development
35. Occur as a means of communication between members of a species
Intraspecific Interactions
Territoriality function
Imprinting
Chemoreceptor Reflexes
36. Innate behavior that has evolved as a signal for communication between members of the same species
Intraspecific Interactions
Spontaneous Recovery
Stimulus Generalization Gradient
Behavioral Display
37. 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
Phermones
Olfactory Sense
Simple Reflex
Barareceptor Reflexes
38. Produce long-term behavioral and physiological alterations in recipient animals ex: male mice may affect the estrous cycles of females
Primer Phermones
Positive Reinforcement/Reward
Coughing
Releaser Phermones
39. System of interactions of many neurons involving the startle response
Reticular Activating system
Reflex
Coughing
Barareceptor Reflexes
40. Involves adaptive responses to the environment
Internal Control
Negative Reinforcement
Learning (lower animals)
Learned behavior
41. Submission display -ex: happy dog wagging tail
Agnostic Displays
Behavioral Display
Stimulus Generalization Gradient
Startle Response
42. If the stimulus is no longer regularly applied - the response tends to recover over time
Behavioral Display
Instrumental/Operant conditioning (extinction)
Spontaneous Recovery
Stimulus Generalization
43. Triggered by irritation of the larynx
Complex Reflexes
Coughing
Reflex
Classical/Pavlovian Conditioning
44. 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'
Hering-Breuer Reflex
Primer Phermones
Innate
Pseudoconditioning
45. Composed of two different reflexes: the inflation and deflation reflexes
Stimulus Generalization Gradient
Hering-Breuer Reflex
Pseudoconditioning
Stimulus Generalization
46. Involves the ability of th learning organism to respond differentially to slightly different stimuli
Agnostic Displays
Stimulus Discrimination
Innate
Primer Phermones
47. 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
Imprinting
Phermones
Punishment
Territoriality
48. Ex: coughing and sneezing -operate on the exposure to chemical irritants - toxic vapors - or mechanical stimulation of the respiratory system
Reticular Activating system
Protective Reflexes
Acquired Reflex
Spontaneous Recovery
49. Recovery of the conditioned response after extinction
Punishment
Spontaneous Recovery
Territoriality
Territoriality function
50. 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
Critical Periods
Hering-Breuer Reflex
Habituation
Circadian Rhythms