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