Neuro behaviors Flashcards
5 common behaviors in animals
Aggression
Elimination disorders
Separation anxiety
Noise phobia
Inter-cat aggression
Most common cause of aggression
Fear
Disorder most common in cats not using litter box
Elimination disorder
Signs of separation anxiety
Is it bad?
Pacing, panting, vocalizing, urination, salivation, destruction
Consider ped behavioral emergency
Disorder present with other disorders
Noise phobia
Staring hissing swatting scratching
Inter-cat aggression
Learning is _________ results from __________
Constant
Experience
behavior is ____________ an indicator of _____________
Communication
Disease state
What leads to better diagnostic abilities
Recognition and understanding signs indicating fear and stress
When is the early socialization sensitive stage for dogs?
cats?
Dogs - 3-9 weeks
Cats- 6- 12 weeks
Why is early socialization good?
Foundation for memory and learning
When is the fear period for cats?
dogs?
Dogs 14 weeks to 9 months
Cats 9 weeks
Learning takes longer during fear period. How can humans help?
Positive reinforcement
What do dogs exhibit during fear period?
Impulsivity
Reactivity
Mouthy behavior
Novel event anxiety all increase
What do cats exhibit during fear period?
Marking
Need own space
What happens during maturity
Reproductive hormones affect brain/body development
T/F Gonadectomy will eliminate all behaviors
False
What are most behaviors from? hormones or learned
Learned
What is the best thing to do when learning behaviors?
Conditioning
Behavior modification learning is called what? name two types?
Classical
Operant
What is classical conditioning
Association of a stimulus with a conditioned emotional response
What is operant conditioning?
Learning to associate voluntary behavioral response with a consequence of that behavior
What is Pavlovian conditioning?
Classical conditioning
What is positive operant conditioning?
negative?
Positive- something is given to the animal
Negative- something is taken away from the animal
What is reinforcement operant conditioning?
positive?
Negative?
Both positive and negative
What is punishment operant conditioning?
positive?
negative?
Positive and negative
desentizization?
Process by which a stimulus associated with undesirable behavior is presented at a level below that which elicits the response followed by a gradual increase in the stimulus level
counterconditioning?
Process by which conditioned emotional response to a stimulus from unpleasant emotion to a pleasant emotion
Classical counterconditioning
Training to perform desired behavior by associating with thing the patient liked
Operant counterconditioning
Training to perform the behaviors that are not compatible with undesirable behaviors
Flooding?
Prolonged exposure to the problematic stimulus at a level that causes the negative emotional response in hopes that continuous presentation of the stimulus will stop the response
Avoidance?
Process in which an individual is prevented from engaging in a problem behavior
Evironmental enrichment/modification
Addition of external factors in order to reduce frequency of abnormal behaviors while increasing frequency of desired behavior
Negative reinforcement vs negative punishment
reinforcement= taking something away from animal INCREASING likelihood of future behavior
punishment= taking something away from animal to DECREASE likelihood for future behavior
positive reinforcement vs positive punishment
reinforcement= something given to animal to increasing future behavior
punishment= something given to animal to decrease future behavior
aversion techniques?
Rely on positive punishment and negative reinforcement to change behavior usually to decrease undesirable behavior
How can aversion techniques be bad for animal and human/animal?
May be detrimental to human animal bond
displacement vs redirected behavior
Displacement normal behavior performed out of context because animal is unable to perform another activity
Redirected behavior- activities directed away from primary target an toward another, less appropriate target
