Introduction to veterinary technology

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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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