PENN FOSTER VETERINARY TECH- BEHAVIOUR
EXAM TERMS THAT ARE CORRECT AND WELL
DETAILED FOR A 100% GUARANTEED PASS
Ethology - ✔✔The study of animal behavior
Natural Selection - ✔✔The process that awards survival and reproductive
success to individuals and groups best adjusted to their
environment
Charles Darwin - ✔✔a British scientist (1809-1882) revolutionized much of the study related to biology
and ethology. He laid the foundation for classical ethology,which asserts that much of what animals
know is instinctive, or innate.
Innate - ✔✔Instinctive
nature-nurture controversy - ✔✔The crux of two opposing
schools: classical ethology, which views animal behavior as
primarily instinctive, and animal psychology, which views
animal behavior as primarily learned
operant conditioning - ✔✔The type of conditioned learning that
associates a certain activity, known as the operant, with
punishment or reward.
operant - ✔✔Functioning or tending to produce effects
stimulus-response theory - ✔✔The psychological school of
, thought stating that all complex forms of behavior, including emotions, thoughts, and habits, are
complex muscular and glandular responses that can be observed and measured.
unconditioned response - ✔✔A simple reflex behavior
unconditioned stimulus - ✔✔Sensory input that produces a
simple reflex behavior.
wobble - ✔✔A training maneuver designed to disorient a bird by
abruptly dropping the hand it's perched upon
spraying - ✔✔Staining vertical surfaces with a strong-smelling
urine.
sociobiology - ✔✔The study of the biological bases of social
behavior.
social behavior - ✔✔The ways individual members of the same
species interact with one another.
sensitive period - ✔✔A specific stage early in an animal's life
when imprinting occurs
recognition of individuals - ✔✔The process that allows animals
to distinguish their place in a social context broader than
their relationship with primary caregivers.
postparturition - ✔✔After giving birth to offspring
EXAM TERMS THAT ARE CORRECT AND WELL
DETAILED FOR A 100% GUARANTEED PASS
Ethology - ✔✔The study of animal behavior
Natural Selection - ✔✔The process that awards survival and reproductive
success to individuals and groups best adjusted to their
environment
Charles Darwin - ✔✔a British scientist (1809-1882) revolutionized much of the study related to biology
and ethology. He laid the foundation for classical ethology,which asserts that much of what animals
know is instinctive, or innate.
Innate - ✔✔Instinctive
nature-nurture controversy - ✔✔The crux of two opposing
schools: classical ethology, which views animal behavior as
primarily instinctive, and animal psychology, which views
animal behavior as primarily learned
operant conditioning - ✔✔The type of conditioned learning that
associates a certain activity, known as the operant, with
punishment or reward.
operant - ✔✔Functioning or tending to produce effects
stimulus-response theory - ✔✔The psychological school of
, thought stating that all complex forms of behavior, including emotions, thoughts, and habits, are
complex muscular and glandular responses that can be observed and measured.
unconditioned response - ✔✔A simple reflex behavior
unconditioned stimulus - ✔✔Sensory input that produces a
simple reflex behavior.
wobble - ✔✔A training maneuver designed to disorient a bird by
abruptly dropping the hand it's perched upon
spraying - ✔✔Staining vertical surfaces with a strong-smelling
urine.
sociobiology - ✔✔The study of the biological bases of social
behavior.
social behavior - ✔✔The ways individual members of the same
species interact with one another.
sensitive period - ✔✔A specific stage early in an animal's life
when imprinting occurs
recognition of individuals - ✔✔The process that allows animals
to distinguish their place in a social context broader than
their relationship with primary caregivers.
postparturition - ✔✔After giving birth to offspring
