Animal Behaviour

Question 1

Simple reflexes vs Complex reflexes

Answer 1

simple reflex: controlled by spinal cord, receptor and motor neuron (afferent and efferent, respectively)
complex reflex: controlled by brainstem or cerebrum

Question 2

Habituation

Answer 2

learning pattern
- suppresion of normal start response to stimuli (normal autonomic response becomes background)
once removed, response takes time to recover (spontaneous recovery)

Question 3

Spontaneous recovery

Answer 3

• conditioned response reappears but weaker than when it was initially acquired

Question 4

Stimulus discrimination vs Stimulus generalization

Answer 4

• discrimination: learn to only respond to within the boundaries
• generalization: respond more and more to outside the range and further away from original

Question 5

Imprinting

Answer 5

critical period of early life

• environmental patterns/ objects become accepted permanently as element of behavioural environment
  i. e. realizing moving object is mother duck