Dogs Learn Exam With Correct Answers
Adaptation - correct answers ✔✔An adjustment than an organism makes to the conditions and
its environment
Allelomimetic - correct answers ✔✔A term used to describe An innate tendency to follow the
actions of others and to do the same thing
Anthropomorphism - correct answers ✔✔The process of attributing human characteristics and
abilities to animals
Baseline - correct answers ✔✔A critical measurement from which a researcher can calculate
changes in the right or frequency of a particular behavior
Behaviorist - correct answers ✔✔Simply put a person who studies animal behavior under
laboratory conditions
Classical conditioning - correct answers ✔✔A type of learning in which a neutral stimulus is
repeatedly paired with the stimulus that generally causes an unconditioned response. Animals
learn what predict what. Also known as respondent conditioning and Pavlovian conditioning
Cognition - correct answers ✔✔A term that refers to thinking or what's going on inside and
organisms head
Condition - correct answers ✔✔Verb. To modify the behavior of a subject
, Condition - correct answers ✔✔Noun. A circumstance controlled by researcher in a laboratory
Conditioned reflex - correct answers ✔✔The combination of a condition stimulus and a
conditioned response
conditioned response (CR) - correct answers ✔✔I learned response that results from pairing
condition stimulus with an unconditioned stimulus
conditioned stimulus (CS) - correct answers ✔✔stimulus that causes a conditioned response
Consequence - correct answers ✔✔And event that follows of behavior
Consummatory reflex - correct answers ✔✔An involuntary response related to biological
preservation of protection, that is, eating
Contingency - correct answers ✔✔The dependence of one event upon another
Dependent variable - correct answers ✔✔That which researcher is interested in or is trying to
explain. It usually refers to the animals response or change in behavior
Ethologist - correct answers ✔✔A person who studies animal behavior by directly observing
animals living under natural or relatively natural conditions
Explanatory fiction - correct answers ✔✔A false intervening variable introduce to explain a
casual relationship between an independent variable and a dependent variable
Expectant behavior - correct answers ✔✔The actions of an organism that clearly indicate it's
expecting a particular thing to occur