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Behaviour Flashcards

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What is behaviour?

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What an animal does
As movements or responses
Defined based on activity, physiology, purpose

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What are the canine relinquishment risk factors?

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Client expectations
Insufficient counselling
No obedience classes
Failing to neuter
House soiling

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What are the feline relinquishment risk factors?

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Imappropriate client expectations
Lack of research and info
House soiling
Lots of other resident cats

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What first aid advice for bad behaviour?

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Identify stimuli
Avoid situations
Muzzle train where appropriate
Arrange long consultation

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What is cognitive decline/cognitive dysfunction syndrome?

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Altered response to stimuli
Deficits in learning and memory
Confusion/senility
Changes over time - slow decline

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What are the clinical signs of cognitive dysfunction syndrome?

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DISHA
Disorientation
Social interactions
Sleep/wake
House soiling - forgetting known behaviours
Activity

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What is the typical appraisal response to a stimuli/threat?

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Potential threat
Sensory perception
Appraisal of threat
Emotional response
Motor output
Ability to show behaviour

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What can cause fly-catching behaviour?

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Visual hallucinations from visual cortex

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What can affect sensory perception?

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Conditions affecting sense organs eg. hearing, vision
Change in pain perception eg, allodynia
Abnormalities in sensory cortex eg. seizures

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What can affect stimulus appraisal?

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Sex hormones - oestrogen, testosterone

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What can affect emotional response?

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Limbic system - recieves info from sensory nerves quicker than the cortex so can make hasty decisions

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What behaviour changes can hyperadrenocorticism cause?

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House soiling - PUPD
Aggression - increased HR
Restlessness
Irritation
Fear and anxiety

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What behaviour changes can feline hyperthyroidism cause?

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Accelerate metabolism
Vocalisation
Night time waking
Increased irritability
Aggression

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What compulsive behaviour can cause dermatological signs?

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Acral lick dermatitis
Psychogenic alopecia - overgrooming

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When to suspect an underlying medical problem causing behaviour problems?

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Changes suddenly - especially in mature animals
Doesnt fit animal history or environment
No learning related cause
Unpredictable/inconsistent

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What is the best way to treat behavioural problems?

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Combine behavioural and medical assessments

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What are the different levels of arousal?

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Low level - options reviewed, learning can occur
High level - immediate response, interferes with learning

18
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What can increase arousal?

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Conflict - multiple competing motivations

19
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When are displacement behaviours shown? What are some examples?

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When arousal increases
Eg. lip licking, yawning, pacing

20
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How can you reduce arousal?

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Prevention/avoidance - control stimulus, environment
Improve - behaviour modification, training, medication

21
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What is the incidences ABC?

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Antecedent (what happens before the behaviour
Behaviour
Consequences

22
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What is pretraining?

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Things to do before training to make it easier
Eg. train useful commands - look at me, touch
Pet control
Markers eg. clicker
Stimulus avoidance

23
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What is a settle exercise?

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Teach dog to sit and stay
Stroking, relax dog
Then vary locations and times of day

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What are the basic learning theory principles?

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Habituation - get used to situation
Sensitisation - opposite, get more sensitive to situation
Associative learning

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What are the two different types of associative learning?

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Classical conditioning
Operant conditioning

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What is the am of behaviour modification?

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Change the animals emotional response to the problem situation
Emotional change rather than behavioural change

27
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How can you control attention?

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Owner starts and finishes all interactions
No response to attention seeking
Increases consistency

28
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What is classical conditioning?

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Pavlovian conditioning - action => reaction
Associative learning - often associates emotions with triggers

29
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What is operant conditioning?

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Trial and error - animal does something first then gets a reward
Associative learning - associates behaviour with triggers rather than emotion

30
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What do you need for operant conditioning?

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Need to identify a good reinforcer for each animal eg. food, toy

31
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What is counter-conditioning?

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Changing emotion not behaviours
Classical conditioning
The goal of behaviour modification

32
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What are the different types of behaviour modification?

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Punishment
Extinction
Habituation
Flooding
Response substitution
Systematic desensitisation

33
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Why should you not use punishment in a dog?

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May reduce undesirable but does not teach desirable
Can increase fear and aggression
Ethical concerns, must escalate if ineffective (go from shouting to hitting)

34
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What is extinction?

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The withdrawal of reinforcement - remove reinforcers until behaviour stops
Does not teach desirable

35
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What can extinction lead to?

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An extinction burst - temporary increase, due to frustration

36
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What is habituation?

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Repeated exposure to a stimulus that leads to a decreased response
Introduce to trigger below threshold and provide no consequence so dog not overstimulated and gets used to nothing happening

37
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When should you use habituation?

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For low grade fears

38
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What is flooding?

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Expose to a fear evoking stimulus with no consequence, but prevent escape
Stimulus not withdrawn until pet habituated
Not recommended for extreme fears or control level
Owners use it by mistake - warn them not to use it

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What is response substitution?

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Find a desired behaviour to reinforce as an alternative to existing behaviour
Calmly get dog to use a different behaviour
Operant conditioning
Eg. treats, touch hand, muzzle
Good technique to use

40
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What is desensitisation?

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Gradual exposure to a stimulus at levels that do not provoke fear
Pet habituates - progress to new threshold
Not easy to implement in real like - have to control everything

41
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What type of exposure exercise is real life applicable and what is ideal life?

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Response substitution - real life
Desensitisation - ideal life

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