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