Behaviour Flashcards
What is the health triad?
Physical
Cognitive
Emotional health
What are the positive emotional motivations?
Desire seeking
Social play
Lust
Care
What are the negative emotional motivations?
Frustration
Fear-anxiety
Pain
Panic-Grief
What is the desire seeking system?
Motivates animal to interact w some1/thing - need to survive food,water, shelter
e.g dog running after a ball
What are the desire seeking system related problems ?
Bin-raiding
Bird-chasing
Cats = biting
What is the fear anxiety system?
preservation of comfort provided by predictable access to essential resources + management of threat.
Helps avoid danger - anxiety>attacked
e.g meeting someone for the first time
What is the pain system?
Maintenance of body integrity + functioning + its distinct motivation + sensation
Activated by potential to actual tissue damage
What is the lust system?
reproductive needs - attraction/selection of partner
What is the care system?
nurturing behaviour - parental / vulnerable care - looking after each other
What is the panic grief system?
protection of species - when a vulnerable pup/kitten can’t get protection from another - aims to get nurturing care back
What is the social play system?
About own social competence + potential in relation with others
What is the Frustration system?
Failure to meet expectations, obtain resources/ retain control
Associated with confrontational behaviours
Often activated with another system
This system intensifies + accelerates behaviour responses
What is emotional stability?
individuals ability to remain emotionally stable + balanced
What is emotional capacity?
Level of emotional arousal an individual can tolerate without negative outcome
What is emotional valence?
Extent an emotion is +ve/-ve
What is emotional arousal?
Intensity of emotional motivation
What is emotional resilience?
Ability to adopt to stressful situations + cope with life’s ups+downs
What is emotional intelligence?
ability to be aware of control and express emotions +handle relationships empathetically.
When does emotional overflow occur?
*low emotional capacity
*emotional disorder
*inappropriate physical/social environment
*too much +ve/-ve emotions
*poor emotional resilience
How do you prevent emotional overflow?
*optimise capacity
*+ve life experiences
*establish good socialisation + habituation
*creating optimal resilience
*optimise understanding + interaction with animal
What are the 4 possible responses to negative emotions?
*Repulsion
*Avoidance
*Appeasement
*Behavioural inhibition
What is repulsion?
Fight - increase distance from and decrease interaction with trigger
influencing trigger to take action
e.g growl, hiss, bite
What is avoidance?
Flight - increase distance from and decrease interaction w trigger
individual taking action
often compromised - leads, cat carriers
What is appeasement?
Actively gathering info - increase availability of info about trigger
Actively interacting to gather info + offer signs of non-hostility
What is behaviour inhibition?
freeze - increase info - passively gathering info without delivering info in return.
What is classical (pavlovian) conditioning?
Involves involuntary / reflex responses + no involvement of reward
e.g full bladder = urination - problem = house soiling
How does punishment reduce success of toilet training?
Lead to not toileting in front of people + eating faeces
What is instrumental (operant) conditioning?
Interaction of stimulus, response + consequence
leads to appropriate behaviour by verbal ques and eventually no verbal ques needed.
Problems = lack of recall, pulling on lead, not getting down from furniture, not releasing objects
Why does operant conditioning go wrong?
*lack of consistency
*lack of patience + poor training environment
*poor que selection and timing
*poor selection of consequence + poor delivery
A link between injury/physical disease + behaviour change may be…..(4)
*Developmental
*Immediate
*Learned
*Emotional
Where do Dogs & cats secrete fear related alarm
communication signals from?
Dogs = Anal glands
Cats = Pads
What are the developmental links that may affect behaviour?
*Kittens/puppies that are ill may be isolated from socialisation + habituation
*May develop negative association with handling due to necessity for medication
What are the immediate links to behaviour change?
*Physical disease - directly responsible
*Neurological problems
*Chronic pain
What are learned links to behaviour change?
*Aggressive behaviour towards people / dogs due to association with pain
What are emotional links to behaviour change?
*Emotional motivation = stress
=alters immune function, weight management
=causes change in mucosal integrity - Bladder, GI, Oral problems
