Intro to Vet Tech - Behavior (Penn
Foster)
Behavior modification programs - answer training courses that use rewards and
reprimands to stimulate changes in behavior
behaviorism - answer the ethological approach that states behavior is learned rather
than genetically programmed
breaking litter box training - answer when a cat urinates and/or defecates someplace
other than its litter box
classical conditioning - answer the type of conditioned learning that associates stimuli
occurring approximately at the exact same time or in roughly the same area
classical ethology - answer the ethological approach asserting that much of what
animals know is instinctive or innate
conditioned stimulus - answer sensory input unrelated to a simple reflex behavior
dance - answer a complex pattern of movements performed by a bee that directs other
bees to a food source
ethology - answer the study of animal behavior
evolution - answerthe scientific theory that characterizes all related organisms as
descended from common ancestors
fixed action patterns - answera term used by early ethologists to describe stereotypical
or predictable behaviors of a species
function - answerin ethological terms, survival value
habituation - answerthe process of learning that certain objects and events have little
bearing on survival and can thus be ignored
house soiling - answerurinating or defecating inside the home
imprinting - answerthe acquisition in the very young of certain fixed action patterns
innate - answerinstinctive
instinct - answera combination of unlearned responses characteristic of a species
Foster)
Behavior modification programs - answer training courses that use rewards and
reprimands to stimulate changes in behavior
behaviorism - answer the ethological approach that states behavior is learned rather
than genetically programmed
breaking litter box training - answer when a cat urinates and/or defecates someplace
other than its litter box
classical conditioning - answer the type of conditioned learning that associates stimuli
occurring approximately at the exact same time or in roughly the same area
classical ethology - answer the ethological approach asserting that much of what
animals know is instinctive or innate
conditioned stimulus - answer sensory input unrelated to a simple reflex behavior
dance - answer a complex pattern of movements performed by a bee that directs other
bees to a food source
ethology - answer the study of animal behavior
evolution - answerthe scientific theory that characterizes all related organisms as
descended from common ancestors
fixed action patterns - answera term used by early ethologists to describe stereotypical
or predictable behaviors of a species
function - answerin ethological terms, survival value
habituation - answerthe process of learning that certain objects and events have little
bearing on survival and can thus be ignored
house soiling - answerurinating or defecating inside the home
imprinting - answerthe acquisition in the very young of certain fixed action patterns
innate - answerinstinctive
instinct - answera combination of unlearned responses characteristic of a species
