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PCAT Biology Animal Behavior

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1. Includes providing food - light - or electrical stimulation of the brain's 'pleasure centers.'






2. 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






3. The major share of the response to the environment






4. Rapid automatic response to a stimulus






5. Occur as a means of communication between members of a species






6. Social hierarchy -minimizes violent intraspecific aggressions by defining stable relationships among members of the group






7. Members of most land-dwelling species defend a limited area or territory from intrusion by other members of the species






8. Established after the organism has been conditioned - whereby stimuli further and further away from the original conditioned stimulus elicit responses with decreasing magnitued






9. Complex reflex - learned motor pattern -ex: step on brakes when animal runs in front






10. Affect systemic blood pressure and stimulate the respiratory rate when blood pressure declines






11. Composed of two different reflexes: the inflation and deflation reflexes






12. Complex - coordinated - and innate behavior responses to specific patterns of stimulation in the environment -innate






13. Involves conditioning responses to stimuli with the Use of reward or reinforcement






14. Involves stimulating the brain's pleasure centers with links the lack of pleasure






15. Will prevail over a subordinate






16. Unconditioned stimulus is removed or was never sufficiently paired with the conditioned stimulus






17. If the stimulus is no longer regularly applied - the response tends to recover over time






18. Trigger a reversible behavioral change in the recipient ex: sex attractant - alarm - toxic defensive






19. Stimulated by changes in pH - PCO2 - and PO2






20. Recovery of the conditioned response after extinction






21. Involves conditioning an organism so that it will stop exhibiting a given behavior pattern






22. Submission display -ex: happy dog wagging tail






23. Response is diminished and finally eliminated in the absence of reinforcement






24. Relatively unlikely to be modified by learning






25. Triggered by irritation of the larynx






26. Consisting of threat displays and combat that settles disputes between individuals in population ex: dog growling






27. Specific behaviors found in all animals which involve the evolution of a variety of complex actions that function as signals in preparation for mating






28. Animals secrete phermones






29. 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'






30. Alerts an animal to a significant stimulus -involves the interaction of reticular activating system






31. 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






32. Patterns of behavior that are established and maintained mainly by periodic situations -ex: response to a traffic light






33. 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






34. Include the elements of the environment that occur in familiar cyclic patterns






35. Involves the association of a normally autonomic or visceral response with an environmental stimulus -aka Conditioned Reflex






36. Ex: coughing and sneezing -operate on the exposure to chemical irritants - toxic vapors - or mechanical stimulation of the respiratory system






37. Inhibits the expiratory center and stimulates the inspirator center when the lungs are in danger of collapsing






38. Distributing members of the species so that environmental resources are not depleted in a small region - intraspecifc competition is reduced






39. The ability of a conditioned organism to respond to stimuli that are similar but not identical - to the original conditioned stimulus






40. Stimulus that elicits the behavior of fixed action patterns






41. Involves adaptive responses to the environment






42. The capacity of the nervous system - particularly the cebral cortex - for flexibility -correlated with the capacity for learning adaptive responses






43. Produce long-term behavioral and physiological alterations in recipient animals ex: male mice may affect the estrous cycles of females






44. Prevents overexpansion of the lungs during forceful breathing






45. Specific time periods during an animal's early development when it is physiologically able to develop specific behavioral patterns






46. Involves neural integration at a higher level -ex: brainstem or even cerebrum






47. Triggered by irritation of the wall of the nasal cavity






48. The gradual elimination of conditioned responses in the absence of reinforcement






49. Involves the ability of th learning organism to respond differentially to slightly different stimuli






50. Natural bodily rhythms of eating and satiation