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