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Flashcards by Brittany Chenier, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Brittany Chenier
about 5 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| House soiling | Urinating or defecating inside the house. |
| Territorial | Prone to defining and defending areas of sleep, eating, exercising, and play. |
| Spraying | Staining vertical surfaces with strong-smelling urine. |
| Postpartuition | Period of time after giving birth to offspring. |
| Behaviorism | The ethological approach that behavior is learned rather than genetically programmed. |
| Classical conditioning | The type of conditioned learning that associates stimuli occurring at approximately the same time or roughly the same area. |
| Classical ethology | The etiological approach asserting that much of animal know is instinct or innate. |
| Conditioned Stimulus | Sensory input unrelated to simple reflex behavior. |
| Ethology | The study of animal behavior. |
| Evolution | The scientific theory characterizes that all related organisms as descended from common ancestors. |
| Fixed Action Patterns | A term used by early ethologists to describe stereotypical or predictable behaviors of a species. |
| Function | In ethological terms, Survival Value |
| Innate | Instinct |
| Instinct | A combination of unlearned responses characteristics of a species. |
| Natural selection | The process that awards survival and reproduction success to individuals and groups best adjusted to their environment. |
| Naturalists | Natural scientists |
| Nature-Nurture Controversy | The crux of two opposing schools: classical ethology, which views animal behavior as primarily instinctive, and animal psychology, which views animal instinct as learned. |
| Unconditioned Stimulus | Sensory input that produces a simple reflex behavior. |
| Unconditioned Response | A simple reflex behavior. |
| Stimulus-Response Theory | The psychological school stating that all complex forms of behaviors, including emotions, thoughts, and habits, are complex muscular and glandular responses that can be observed and measured. |
| Sociobiology | The study of biological bases or social behavior. |
| Operant | Functioning or tending to produce effects. |
| Operant Conditioning | The type of conditioned learning that associates a certain activity, known as operant, with punishment or reward. |
| Dance | A complex pattern of movements performed by a bee that direct other bees to a food source. |
| Imprinting | The acquisition in the very young of certain fixed action patterns. |
| Instrumental learning | Learning by trial and error. |
| Social Behavior | The ways individuals of the same species interact with one another. |
| Sensitive period | A specific stage in an animal's young life when imprinting occurs. |
| Recognition of Individuals | The process that allows animals to distinguish their place in social content broader than their relationship with primary caregivers. |
| Socialization | The process of adapting to contact with others. |
| Behavior modification program | Training courses that use reward and reprimand to stimulate changes in behavior. |
| Habituation | The process of learning certain objects and events have little bearing on survival value and thus can be ignored. |
| Breaking Litter Box Training | When a cat urinates or defecates outside some other place than its litter box. |
| Wobble | A training maneuver to direct a bird by abruptly dropping the hand is perched upon. |
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