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Midterm 2 Terminology Flashcards

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Intentional or structured use of conditioning or learning procedures to modify behaviour

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Behaviour modification

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Intentional or structured habituation program

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Desensitization

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Gradual structured habituation

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Systematic desensitization

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Set of reflexes we are born with, not dependent on conditions of our experiences

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Unconditioned reflexes

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Unconditioned stimulus

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naturally or involuntarily causes a response

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Unconditioned response

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Unlearned response to an US

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Conditioned stimulus

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Previously neutral stimulus that, once associated with US, eventually triggers a CR

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Conditioned response

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Learned response to the previously neutral stimulus

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Pleasant unconditioned stimulus

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Appetitive

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Unpleasant unconditioned stimulus

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Aversive

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CR becomes more reliable and grows in magnitude with repeated pairings

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Acquisition

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12
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CS presented without the US, CR becomes weaker in magnitude and occurs less reliably

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Extinction

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CS paired with aversive US leading to negative CR (flinching, freezing)

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Conditioned suppression

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Stimulus or stimuli presented repetitively at full strength

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Flooding

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Learned helplessness

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After flooding, animal shows no response but only because there is no escape

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16
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CS that more or less reliably predicts a US

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Excitatory CS

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CS that more or less reliably predicts NO US

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Inhibitory CS

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Intensity of stimulus, how well it is detected

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Salience

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Pseudoconditioning

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CS produces a response that looks like a CR, without any pairing with a US

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Respondent

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Behaviours elicited by specific stimuli

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Cue used in operant conditioning

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Antecedent

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Consequence that increases the frequency of the behaviour

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Reinforcer

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Consequence that decreases the frequency of behaviour

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Punisher

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Signals reinforcement is coming (e.g. clicker)

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Bridging stimulus

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Bridging stimulus that has taken on the properties of the reinforcement (treat) via classical conditioning

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Secondary reinforcer

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Presentation of an aversive stimulus or removal of a pleasurable stimulus

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Punishment

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Trial and error learning, modify existing behaviour or create new one

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Successive approximation

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Making a “shaped” behaviour part of a sequence of behaviours

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Chaining

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Heterogenous chain

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Multiple types of behaviours

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Homogenous chain

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Only one type of behaviour chained

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Ethogram

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Detailed description, list or inventory of all the different kinds of behaviour or activity of a species

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Causes of sickness behaviour (how), can aid in diagnosis, treatment, prevention

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Proximate

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Why would an animal act sick or not sick

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Ultimate

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Animals response to standard stimuli (e.g pain)

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Evoked behaviour

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State that overwhelms or co-opts other states

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Motivational state

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Dog appears to be in conflict with regard to aggressive tendencies

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Conflict aggression

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Social facilitation

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One dog starts barking, which increased the odds that other dogs start

38
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An acquired aversion may derive from a food that made the dog sick in the past

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Garcia effect

39
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Altricial

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Helpless at birth

40
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Sequence done the exact same way every time

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Fixed action pattern

41
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Performance of behavioural vices, stereotypes, etc

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Active coping

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Lethargy in animals

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Passive coping

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Animals boundaries, how much physical touch they’ll allow

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Sensitivity threshold

44
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Loss of sense of smell related to upper respiratory illness

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Anosmia

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Extensive hair loss from excessive grooming

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Psychogenic alopecia

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Disordered grooming in dogs

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Acral lick dermatitis

47
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Anti-anxiety drugs

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Anxiolytic

48
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Sickness behaviour

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Well recognized, clinical signs of disease commonly used in diagnosis

Adaptive response that may enhance resistance, facilitate recovery or avoid transmission in population

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