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