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