Behaviour

Question 1

What is the health triad?

Answer 1

Physical
Cognitive
Emotional health

Question 2

What are the positive emotional motivations?

Answer 2

Desire seeking
Social play
Lust
Care

Question 3

What are the negative emotional motivations?

Answer 3

Frustration
Fear-anxiety
Pain
Panic-Grief

Question 4

What is the desire seeking system?

Answer 4

Motivates animal to interact w some1/thing - need to survive food,water, shelter
e.g dog running after a ball

Question 5

What are the desire seeking system related problems ?

Answer 5

Bin-raiding
Bird-chasing
Cats = biting

Question 6

What is the fear anxiety system?

Answer 6

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

Question 7

What is the pain system?

Answer 7

Maintenance of body integrity + functioning + its distinct motivation + sensation
Activated by potential to actual tissue damage

Question 8

What is the lust system?

Answer 8

reproductive needs - attraction/selection of partner

Question 9

What is the care system?

Answer 9

nurturing behaviour - parental / vulnerable care - looking after each other

Question 10

What is the panic grief system?

Answer 10

protection of species - when a vulnerable pup/kitten can’t get protection from another - aims to get nurturing care back

Question 11

What is the social play system?

Answer 11

About own social competence + potential in relation with others

Question 12

What is the Frustration system?

Answer 12

Failure to meet expectations, obtain resources/ retain control
Associated with confrontational behaviours
Often activated with another system
This system intensifies + accelerates behaviour responses

Question 13

What is emotional stability?

Answer 13

individuals ability to remain emotionally stable + balanced

Question 14

What is emotional capacity?

Answer 14

Level of emotional arousal an individual can tolerate without negative outcome

Question 15

What is emotional valence?

Answer 15

Extent an emotion is +ve/-ve

Question 16

What is emotional arousal?

Answer 16

Intensity of emotional motivation

Question 17

What is emotional resilience?

Answer 17

Ability to adopt to stressful situations + cope with life’s ups+downs

Question 18

What is emotional intelligence?

Answer 18

ability to be aware of control and express emotions +handle relationships empathetically.

Question 19

When does emotional overflow occur?

Answer 19

*low emotional capacity
*emotional disorder
*inappropriate physical/social environment
*too much +ve/-ve emotions
*poor emotional resilience

Question 20

How do you prevent emotional overflow?

Answer 20

*optimise capacity
*+ve life experiences
*establish good socialisation + habituation
*creating optimal resilience
*optimise understanding + interaction with animal

Question 21

What are the 4 possible responses to negative emotions?

Answer 21

*Repulsion
*Avoidance
*Appeasement
*Behavioural inhibition

Question 22

What is repulsion?

Answer 22

Fight - increase distance from and decrease interaction with trigger
influencing trigger to take action
e.g growl, hiss, bite

Question 23

What is avoidance?

Answer 23

Flight - increase distance from and decrease interaction w trigger
individual taking action
often compromised - leads, cat carriers

Question 24

What is appeasement?

Answer 24

Actively gathering info - increase availability of info about trigger
Actively interacting to gather info + offer signs of non-hostility

Question 25

What is behaviour inhibition?

Answer 25

freeze - increase info - passively gathering info without delivering info in return.

Question 26

What is classical (pavlovian) conditioning?

Answer 26

Involves involuntary / reflex responses + no involvement of reward
e.g full bladder = urination - problem = house soiling

Question 27

How does punishment reduce success of toilet training?

Answer 27

Lead to not toileting in front of people + eating faeces

Question 28

What is instrumental (operant) conditioning?

Answer 28

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

Question 29

Why does operant conditioning go wrong?

Answer 29

*lack of consistency
*lack of patience + poor training environment
*poor que selection and timing
*poor selection of consequence + poor delivery

Question 30

A link between injury/physical disease + behaviour change may be…..(4)

Answer 30

*Developmental
*Immediate
*Learned
*Emotional

Question 31

Where do Dogs & cats secrete fear related alarm
communication signals from?

Answer 31

Dogs = Anal glands
Cats = Pads

Question 32

What are the developmental links that may affect behaviour?

Answer 32

*Kittens/puppies that are ill may be isolated from socialisation + habituation
*May develop negative association with handling due to necessity for medication

Question 33

What are the immediate links to behaviour change?

Answer 33

*Physical disease - directly responsible
*Neurological problems
*Chronic pain

Question 34

What are learned links to behaviour change?

Answer 34

*Aggressive behaviour towards people / dogs due to association with pain

Question 35

What are emotional links to behaviour change?

Answer 35

*Emotional motivation = stress
=alters immune function, weight management
=causes change in mucosal integrity - Bladder, GI, Oral problems