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Diploma Veterinary Nursing Year 1 (Animal Welfare and Husbandry Quizzes) Quiz on Animal Behaviour, created by Jessica Whittick on 22/05/2018.

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Animal Behaviour

Question 1 of 10

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Fill the blank space to complete the text.

is the study of the behaviour of animals in natural habitats and captivity.

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Question 2 of 10

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Which of the following is NOT an example of an external stimuli?

Select one of the following:

  • Sight

  • Hunger

  • Heat

  • Presence of other animals

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Question 3 of 10

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Which of the following is a type of behaviour?

Select one of the following:

  • Foraging

  • Courtship

  • Parental Care

  • All of the above

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Question 4 of 10

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Which description describes habituation?

Select one of the following:

  • the process whereby an animal learns how to recognise and interact with the species with which it cohabits

  • the process whereby an animal becomes accustomed to a non-threatening environment stimuli and learns to ignore them

  • inherent inclination of an organism towards a particular behaviour

  • a learned effect that consequences a behaviour on an animal whether it chooses to do the same behaviour again (weird grammar but this was how it was written on the quiz!)

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Question 5 of 10

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What situation may result in a process known as latent inhibition?

Select one of the following:

  • sight of a lead and anticipation of a walk

  • puppy going to a veterinary practice for a second procedure

  • salivating at the sound of a whistle

  • puppy learning the behaviour of their parents

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Question 6 of 10

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Which of the following is an example of operant conditioning?

Select one of the following:

  • the process whereby an animal learns how to recognise and interact with the species with which it cohabits

  • the process whereby an animal becomes accustomed to non-threatening environmental stimuli and learns to ignore them

  • inherent inclination of an organism towards a particular behaviour

  • a learned effect that consequences a behaviour on an animal whether it chooses to do the same behaviour again

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Question 7 of 10

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Fill the blank space to complete the text.

An behaviour is one that the animal has from the very beginning of its life.

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Question 8 of 10

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What is an instinctive (fixed pattern) response?

Select one of the following:

  • mixing with other individuals and organisms

  • series of actions to completion e.g. goose will pull egg back under it but can't discriminate between an egg and ball

  • watching and mimicking another organism

  • responding to the environment - same stimuli over and over again so start to ignore it

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Question 9 of 10

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is when the animal responds to their environment and receives the same stimuli over and over again so starts to ignore it.
is when you can teach complex behaviour via trial and error for example.
is when an individual watches and mimics another organism - making use of 'mirror neurons'.
is a certain intelligent characteristic needed to be social and this can help individuals solve problems.

Drag and drop to complete the text.

    Habituation
    Operant Conditioning
    Observational Learning
    Insight

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Question 10 of 10

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Which of the following behavioural traits will be noticed in a submissive dog?

Select one of the following:

  • Ears forward, tail between legs, lying on side

  • Ears back, tail between legs, lying on back

  • Ears back, tail erect and hackles raised

  • Ears back, tail erect and showing teeth

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