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