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PCAT Biology Animal Behavior
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1. Specific behaviors found in all animals which involve the evolution of a variety of complex actions that function as signals in preparation for mating
Reproductive Displays
Circadian Rhythms
Internal Control
Barareceptor Reflexes
2. Stimulated by changes in pH - PCO2 - and PO2
Imprinting
Operant/Instrumental Conditioning
Reproductive Displays
Chemoreceptor Reflexes
3. Occur as a means of communication between members of a species
Primer Phermones
Classical/Pavlovian Conditioning
Releaser
Intraspecific Interactions
4. The ability of a conditioned organism to respond to stimuli that are similar but not identical - to the original conditioned stimulus
Territoriality function
Releaser
Stimulus Generalization
Hering-Breuer Reflex
5. Inhibits the expiratory center and stimulates the inspirator center when the lungs are in danger of collapsing
Classical Conditioning (extinction)
Pseudoconditioning
Deflation Reflex
Positive Reinforcement/Reward
6. Involves the association of a normally autonomic or visceral response with an environmental stimulus -aka Conditioned Reflex
Barareceptor Reflexes
External Modulators
Classical/Pavlovian Conditioning
Antagonistic behavior
7. Complex - coordinated - and innate behavior responses to specific patterns of stimulation in the environment -innate
Critical Periods
Classical Conditioning (extinction)
Punishment
Fixed-Action Patterns
8. Includes providing food - light - or electrical stimulation of the brain's 'pleasure centers.'
Stimulus Generalization
Startle Response
Circadian Rhythms
Positive Reinforcement/Reward
9. System of interactions of many neurons involving the startle response
Reticular Activating system
Stimulus Generalization
Territoriality function
Imprinting
10. Ex: coughing and sneezing -operate on the exposure to chemical irritants - toxic vapors - or mechanical stimulation of the respiratory system
Acquired Reflex
Stimulus Generalization
Protective Reflexes
Behavioral Display
11. Triggered by irritation of the larynx
Coughing
Positive Reinforcement/Reward
Pseudoconditioning
Environmental Rhythms/Stimuli
12. Stimulus that elicits the behavior of fixed action patterns
Territoriality
Antagonistic behavior
Spontaneous Recovery
Releaser
13. Submission display -ex: happy dog wagging tail
Classical Conditioning (extinction)
Learning (lower animals)
Agnostic Displays
Releaser
14. Involves the ability of th learning organism to respond differentially to slightly different stimuli
Territoriality
Primer Phermones
Habituation
Stimulus Discrimination
15. Specific time periods during an animal's early development when it is physiologically able to develop specific behavioral patterns
Pseudoconditioning
Imprinting
Coughing
Critical Periods
16. Involves conditioning responses to stimuli with the Use of reward or reinforcement
Internal Control
Neurologic Development
Dominant member
Operant/Instrumental Conditioning
17. The major share of the response to the environment
Learning (higher animals)
Phermones
Pseudoconditioning
Punishment
18. Will prevail over a subordinate
Classical Conditioning (extinction)
Dominant member
Pecking Order
Sneezing
19. 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
Stimulus Generalization
Pseudoconditioning
Imprinting
Negative Reinforcement
20. Substance secreted by animals that influence the behavior of other members of the same species
Reflex
Agnostic Displays
Primer Phermones
Phermones
21. Alerts an animal to a significant stimulus -involves the interaction of reticular activating system
Circadian Rhythms
Positive Reinforcement/Reward
Startle Response
Critical Periods
22. Triggered by irritation of the wall of the nasal cavity
Releaser
Sneezing
Instrumental/Operant conditioning (extinction)
Critical Periods
23. Complex reflex - learned motor pattern -ex: step on brakes when animal runs in front
Acquired Reflex
Neurologic Development
Primer Phermones
Spontaneous Recovery
24. Patterns of behavior that are established and maintained mainly by periodic situations -ex: response to a traffic light
Coughing
Environmental Rhythms/Stimuli
Stimulus Generalization
Territoriality
25. Natural bodily rhythms of eating and satiation
Territoriality function
Behavioral Display
Internal Control
Olfactory Sense
26. Distributing members of the species so that environmental resources are not depleted in a small region - intraspecifc competition is reduced
Reticular Activating system
Territoriality function
Hering-Breuer Reflex
Classical/Pavlovian Conditioning
27. 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
Innate
Extinction (modification of conditioned behavior)
Circadian Rhythms
Releaser Phermones
28. The gradual elimination of conditioned responses in the absence of reinforcement
Complex Reflexes
Reflex
Extinction (modification of conditioned behavior)
Acquired Reflex
29. Involves the suppression of the normal startle responses to stimuli -repeated stimulation will results in decreased resonsiveness to that stimulus
Territoriality function
Pecking Order
Sneezing
Habituation
30. The capacity of the nervous system - particularly the cebral cortex - for flexibility -correlated with the capacity for learning adaptive responses
Releaser
Neurologic Development
Primer Phermones
Fixed-Action Patterns
31. Unconditioned stimulus is removed or was never sufficiently paired with the conditioned stimulus
Reticular Activating system
Behavioral Display
Circadian Rhythms
Classical Conditioning (extinction)
32. Rapid automatic response to a stimulus
Positive Reinforcement/Reward
Reflex
Complex Reflexes
External Modulators
33. Animals secrete phermones
Protective Reflexes
Neurologic Development
Olfactory Sense
Positive Reinforcement/Reward
34. Involves conditioning an organism so that it will stop exhibiting a given behavior pattern
Reflex
Olfactory Sense
Punishment
Inflation Reflex
35. Social hierarchy -minimizes violent intraspecific aggressions by defining stable relationships among members of the group
Releaser Phermones
Extinction (modification of conditioned behavior)
Complex Reflexes
Pecking Order
36. Composed of two different reflexes: the inflation and deflation reflexes
Inflation Reflex
Fixed-Action Patterns
Critical Periods
Hering-Breuer Reflex
37. Response is diminished and finally eliminated in the absence of reinforcement
Barareceptor Reflexes
Territoriality function
Instrumental/Operant conditioning (extinction)
Deflation Reflex
38. Relatively unlikely to be modified by learning
Reflex
Instrumental/Operant conditioning (extinction)
Classical Conditioning (extinction)
Innate
39. Innate behavior that has evolved as a signal for communication between members of the same species
Spontaneous Recovery
Deflation Reflex
Stimulus Generalization
Behavioral Display
40. 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
Olfactory Sense
Intraspecific Interactions
Stimulus Generalization Gradient
41. Recovery of the conditioned response after extinction
Extinction (modification of conditioned behavior)
Spontaneous Recovery
Coughing
Operant/Instrumental Conditioning
42. Include the elements of the environment that occur in familiar cyclic patterns
Agnostic Displays
External Modulators
Deflation Reflex
Stimulus Generalization
43. Prevents overexpansion of the lungs during forceful breathing
Agnostic Displays
Learned behavior
Fixed-Action Patterns
Inflation Reflex
44. Involves stimulating the brain's pleasure centers with links the lack of pleasure
Stimulus Generalization Gradient
Negative Reinforcement
Learned behavior
Intraspecific Interactions
45. Established after the organism has been conditioned - whereby stimuli further and further away from the original conditioned stimulus elicit responses with decreasing magnitued
Extinction (modification of conditioned behavior)
Simple Reflex
Reproductive Displays
Stimulus Generalization Gradient
46. Consisting of threat displays and combat that settles disputes between individuals in population ex: dog growling
Learning (lower animals)
Antagonistic behavior
Stimulus Generalization
External Modulators
47. Involves adaptive responses to the environment
Protective Reflexes
Imprinting
Chemoreceptor Reflexes
Learned behavior
48. Affect systemic blood pressure and stimulate the respiratory rate when blood pressure declines
Antagonistic behavior
Barareceptor Reflexes
Territoriality
Startle Response
49. Involves neural integration at a higher level -ex: brainstem or even cerebrum
Complex Reflexes
Coughing
Chemoreceptor Reflexes
Innate
50. Members of most land-dwelling species defend a limited area or territory from intrusion by other members of the species
Simple Reflex
Territoriality
Complex Reflexes
Agnostic Displays