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