Practice questions 2

Question 1

"The scientific study of animal behavior, especially as it occurs in a natural environment" is the definition of:
A. Tinbergen's questions
B. Sensitization 
C. Ethology
D. Learning

Answer 1

C. Ethology

Question 2

T/F: Prevention of injury to an owner, between animals, and to oneself is part of the benefits of studying animal behavior.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Describe Taste Aversion Learning.

Answer 3

A.

Question 4

What are some CNS structures involved in fear, anxiety, and stress?

Answer 4

A.

Question 5

What factors should you rule out before dx with behavior problem

Answer 5

What are some physical changes that occur in CDS?

Question 6

Define displacement activity.

Answer 6

Describe hallucinatory compulsions

Question 7

Describe locomotion CDs

Answer 7

Define compulsion.

Question 8

What are some alternative therapies to CDS?

Answer 8

What should a CDS diet/supplements be?

Question 9

What is an obsession?

Answer 9

Describe aggression compulsions

Question 10

Describe vocal compulsions

Answer 10

Describe ingestive compulsions

Question 11

Describe grooming compulsions

Answer 11

How do you classify CDs?

Question 12

How do you diagnose compulsion disorders?

Answer 12

What are some acquired causes of CD?

Question 13

What drugs treat CDS?

Answer 13

What are some common compulsive disorders by species?

Question 14

Define compulsive disorder

Answer 14

Define stereotypy

Question 15

Define redirected behavior.

Answer 15

What drugs are used to treat CDs?

Question 16

Define vacuum activity.

Answer 16

Describe the Senior Pet Checklist

Question 17

How can you treat CDs?

Answer 17

What are some common behavioral complaints of geriatric dogs

Question 18

What is Cognitive Dysfunction Syndrome (CDS)

Answer 18

How can you treat CDS?

Question 19

Describe hyperactivity and vocalization in geriatric cats.

Answer 19

Describe house soiling in geriatric cats

Question 20

Describe aggression in geriatric dogs.

Answer 20

How do you diagnose CDS?

Question 21

Describe good vs bad stress

Answer 21

When do SA behaviors occur?

Question 22

Define extinction.

Answer 22

Describe excitement urination.

Question 23

Describe Operant conditioning.

Answer 23

What are the goals of the AVSAB- American Veterinary Society of Animal Behavior?

Question 24

Who are the 3 Nobel Laureates in Medicine for behavior?

Answer 24

What are pros/cons with filling history sheet out at home

Question 25

How can you recognize anxiety?

Answer 25

Describe protective aggression.

Question 26

Describe Territorial aggression.

Answer 26

Describe fear aggression.

Question 27

What are some other therapies for anxiety?

Answer 27

What drugs can help with anxiety?

Question 28

What can DS/CxC treat?

Answer 28

Why is flooding bad?

Question 29

Why might classical conditioning be a TX in anxiety?

Answer 29

Describe maternal aggression.

Question 30

What are relaxed signals?

Answer 30

Define ethogram.

Question 31

How can you treat fears?

Answer 31

How can you measure reliability of studies?

Question 32

Describe possessive aggression.

Answer 32

Describe all occurrence sampling.

Question 33

Describe point sampling.

Answer 33

Describe focal sampling.

Question 34

Describe ad libitum sampling.

Answer 34

What drugs can you treat generalized/fearful anxiety with?

Question 35

Describe aggression toward humans.

Answer 35

Name some sampling methods in gathering behavioral data.

Question 36

What are some factors when treating an aggressive dog

Answer 36

What is metacommunication?

Question 37

Name the 4 questions of importance to animal behavior.

Answer 37

Define an event and the information it gives.

Question 38

Pro/Con with direct interview

Answer 38

Define a state and the information it gives.

Question 39

Define empirical description.

Answer 39

How can you empirically measure behavior?

Question 40

What are signs of submission/fear/anxiety?

Answer 40

What are signs of alert/dominance/confidence?

Question 41

What do dogs use for ritual signaling?

Answer 41

What is a dogs sensitive period for dogs, humans, and environment?

Question 42

When you should adopt puppies?

Answer 42

Give an example of canine signaling.

Question 43

Name some categories of information on history sheet

Answer 43

time-savers

Question 44

Define Phylogeny.

Answer 44

Define Ontogeny.

Question 45

Describe the cause of the behavior.

Answer 45

Define Positive.

Question 46

Name some common behavior problems of dogs.

Answer 46

Habituation vs. sensitization

Question 47

Define Reinforcement.

Answer 47

Describe ratio schedules

Question 48

What are some behavioral causes for inappropriate elimination?

Answer 48

Describe status-related aggression

Question 49

What medical causes could explain inapp. Elimination?

Answer 49

Describe cat-cat fights.

Question 50

How should you medicate fearful/victim cats

Answer 50

Describe pain aggression.

Question 51

How can you medicate aggressive cats

Answer 51

Describe Sexual aggression.

Question 52

Describe play aggression

Answer 52

Describe redirected aggression.

Question 53

How should you introduce a new cat?

Answer 53

Describe petting intolerance.

Question 54

Define Punishment.

Answer 54

Define Negative.

Question 55

Name some common behavior problems of cats.

Answer 55

Describe Classical Conditioning

Question 56

What are some environmental changes for SA?

Answer 56

What is the most common misconception about SA?

Question 57

How can you teach the dog to be left alone?

Answer 57

What are some IE differentials?

Question 58

What is the goal of TX of SA?

Answer 58

How can you treat IE?

Question 59

How do you diagnose SA?

Answer 59

When is SA triggered?

Question 60

What is SA?

Answer 60

How can you treat marking?

Question 61

What drugs can you use for SA?

Answer 61

What info should you get in behavioral history?

Question 62

What are some medical/physical causes of IE.

Answer 62

What does the number of pairings needed between US and NS depend on?

Question 63

Why do cats eliminate inappropriately What is the difference b/t elimination and marking

Answer 63

Define Extinction.

Question 64

What are pre-departure cues.

Answer 64

Define learning.

Question 65

Name some common behavior problems of horses.

Answer 65

Describe positive reinforcement

Question 66

Describe Fear aggression.

Answer 66

What are some feline behaviors during grooming, playing, mating, and hunting.

Question 67

Describe Human-directed play aggression in the cat.

Answer 67

Are cats social?

Question 68

Describe fearfully aggressive cat.

Answer 68

When is a cat’s sensitive period?

Question 69

Describe feline dominance

Answer 69

Describe counter-conditioning

Question 70

Describe aggression between familiar dogs.

Answer 70

Describe non-household dog aggression

Question 71

Describe desensitization

Answer 71

Describe aggression toward dogs.

Question 72

Describe Learned Helplessness

Answer 72

Describe interval schedules

Question 73

Describe feline submission.

Answer 73

Name some things a veterinary behaviorist does.

Question 74

What is fatigue vs learning?

Answer 74

Describe prompting vs fading vs shaping

Question 75

Describe negative reinforcement

Answer 75

Name some common behavior problems of birds.

Question 76

Define dishabituation.

Answer 76

Describe SA in cats

Question 77

Give some examples of CC.

Answer 77

Define sensitization.

Question 78

Describe positive punishment

Answer 78

What is change in stimulus conditions vs learning?

Question 79

Describe negative punishment (time out)

Answer 79

What 3 things must be met for correct punishment?

Question 80

Describe incomplete housetraining.

Answer 80

Describe marking.

Question 81

Name some behavior products for dogs.

Answer 81

Describe dominance aggression.

Question 82

What is alteration in physiological state vs. learning.

Answer 82

When is punishment warranted?

Question 83

Define habituation.

Answer 83

What is maturation vs learning.

Question 84

Name some behavior products for cats.

Answer 84

A.

Question 85

Name the 3 FDA approved drugs for DOGS.

Answer 85

Anipryl (SA) Clomicalm (CDS) Reconcile (SA;no longer on the market)

Question 86

``` Which of these drugs are currently FDA approved for use in cats? A. Anipryl B. Clomicalm C. Both of the above D. None of the above ```

Answer 86

D. None of the above

Question 87

``` Which of these drugs are currently FDA approved for use in dogs for separation anxiety? A. Clomicalm B. Anipryl C. Both of the above D. None of the above ```

Answer 87

A. Clomicalm | Anipryl is used for dogs with cognitive dysfunction syndrome

Question 88

``` Which of these drugs can be/are used off-label for behavior issues in cats and dogs? A. Diazepam B. Fluoxetine C. Anipryl D. A and B only E. All of the above ```

Answer 88

D. A and B only | Anipryl is for use in dogs only and is actually FDA approved, so it is not off-label use in dogs

Question 89

Name some common anxiolytics.

Answer 89

A.

Question 90

What info should you collect during consult?

Answer 90

A.

Question 91

Describe predatory aggression.

Answer 91

A.

Question 92

Describe submission urination.

Answer 92

A.

Question 93

What are some common manifestations of SA?

Answer 93

A.

Question 94

Operant conditioning: What are schedules of reinforcement?

Answer 94

A.