Flashcards
Introduction to veterinary technology
Flashcards do conjunto (34)
- 1House soilingUrinating or defecating inside the house.
- 2TerritorialProne to defining and defending areas of sleep, eating, exercising, and play.
- 3SprayingStaining vertical surfaces with strong-smelling urine.
- 4PostpartuitionPeriod of time after giving birth to offspring.
- 5BehaviorismThe ethological approach that behavior is learned rather than genetically programmed.
- 6Classical conditioningThe type of conditioned learning that associates stimuli occurring at approximately the same time or roughly the same area.
- 7Classical ethologyThe etiological approach asserting that much of animal know is instinct or innate.
- 8Conditioned StimulusSensory input unrelated to simple reflex behavior.
- 9EthologyThe study of animal behavior.
- 10EvolutionThe scientific theory characterizes that all related organisms as descended from common ancestors.
- 11Fixed Action PatternsA term used by early ethologists to describe stereotypical or predictable behaviors of a species.
- 12FunctionIn ethological terms, Survival Value
- 13InnateInstinct
- 14InstinctA combination of unlearned responses characteristics of a species.
- 15Natural selectionThe process that awards survival and reproduction success to individuals and groups best adjusted to their environment.
- 16NaturalistsNatural scientists
- 17Nature-Nurture ControversyThe crux of two opposing schools: classical ethology, which views animal behavior as primarily instinctive, and animal psychology, which views animal instinct as learned.
- 18Unconditioned StimulusSensory input that produces a simple reflex behavior.
- 19Unconditioned ResponseA simple reflex behavior.
- 20Stimulus-Response TheoryThe 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.
- 21SociobiologyThe study of biological bases or social behavior.
- 22OperantFunctioning or tending to produce effects.
- 23Operant ConditioningThe type of conditioned learning that associates a certain activity, known as operant, with punishment or reward.
- 24DanceA complex pattern of movements performed by a bee that direct other bees to a food source.
- 25ImprintingThe acquisition in the very young of certain fixed action patterns.
- 26Instrumental learningLearning by trial and error.
- 27Social BehaviorThe ways individuals of the same species interact with one another.
- 28Sensitive periodA specific stage in an animal's young life when imprinting occurs.
- 29Recognition of IndividualsThe process that allows animals to distinguish their place in social content broader than their relationship with primary caregivers.
- 30SocializationThe process of adapting to contact with others.
- 31Behavior modification programTraining courses that use reward and reprimand to stimulate changes in behavior.
- 32HabituationThe process of learning certain objects and events have little bearing on survival value and thus can be ignored.
- 33Breaking Litter Box TrainingWhen a cat urinates or defecates outside some other place than its litter box.
- 34WobbleA training maneuver to direct a bird by abruptly dropping the hand is perched upon.