Reproductive Behavior

Question 1

behavior

Answer 1

the response of the patterns of muscle contractions

Question 2

reflex behaviors

Answer 2

involuntary responses to stimuli

Question 3

Rhythmic Behaviors

Answer 3

locomotion, breathing, function of the heart

Question 4

voluntary behaviors

Answer 4

huge arrange on behaviors

Question 5

Purpose of reproductive behaviors

Answer 5

promote the opportunity of copulation/mating, increase genetic diversity

Question 6

Differential Parental Investment Theory

Answer 6

predicts that when looking for long-term relationships females should seek out and choose males who are ready to invest resources in their offspring

Question 7

reproductive behavior in males

Answer 7

Precopulatory behavior, Copulatory behavior, postcopulatory

Question 8

Precopulatory Behavior

Answer 8

Search for sexual partner -> courtship -> sexual arousal -> erection -> penile protrusion

Question 9

copulatory behavior

Answer 9

mounting -> intromission -> ejaculation

Question 10

Postcopulatory behvaior

Answer 10

dismount -> refractory period -> memory

Question 11

reproductive behavior in females

Answer 11

attractivity, perceptivity, receptivity

Question 12

Attractivity in females

Answer 12

behaviors and signals to attract males. Ex: vocalizations, postures, chemical pheromones

Question 13

Perceptivity

Answer 13

behaviors exhibited stimulate the male to copulate.

Ex: reinitiate sexual behavior after copulation, homosexual behaviors

Question 14

Receptivity

Answer 14

Copulatory behavior, ensures insemination.

Ex: postures, immobility, standing response

Question 15

During what period is the mucus fluid and watery

Answer 15

Estrus

Question 16

During what period is the mucus thick and dense

Answer 16

diestrus

Question 17

refractivity in postcopulation

Answer 17

period after copulation that male and female will not engage in copulatory behavior

Question 18

sustained copulators

Answer 18

boar, dog and camelids

Question 19

short copulators

Answer 19

bull, ram, buck, tom

Question 20

pheromones

Answer 20

detected by olfactory system, volatile compounds

Question 21

vasomeronasal organ

Answer 21

accessory olfactory organ, nasopalatine ducts in roof of mouth allow fluid-borne chemicals to enter the organ

Question 22

Flehmen Response

Answer 22

head elevation and curling of lip, closes nostrils and forces liquid into vomeronasal organ to be sampled by animal

Question 23

Reflex Response

Answer 23

Combination of input from cerebra cortex and tactile stimulation

Question 24

what is the erection controlled by

Answer 24

Autonomic Nervous System

Question 25

Sympathetic Nervous System

Answer 25

thoracic and lumbar region

Question 26

parasympathetic Nervous System

Answer 26

cranial and sacra region

Question 27

erection has 2 levels of sensory stimulus which are?

Answer 27

Psychic stimulation and level of glans penis

Question 28

psychic stimulation

Answer 28

cerebral cortex sends signals that exists through the sacra; region

Question 29

level of glans penis

Answer 29

stimulation pudendal nerve

->spinal cord->lumbar center -> sacral region -> pelvic nerve -> effector organ

Question 30

erection of the penis requires

Answer 30

elevated arterial blood inflow
dilation of corporal sinusoids
restricted venous outflow
elevated intrapenile pressure
relaxation of the retractor penis muscle

Question 31

intromission

Answer 31

entrance and period of time the penis is in the vagina

Question 32

emission

Answer 32

movement of seminal fluid form accessory sex glands into the pelvic urthra

Question 33

ejaculation

Answer 33

the reflex expulsion of sperm and seminal plasma from the male reproductive tract

Question 34

penile retraction

Answer 34

end of erection, no sexual stimulus perceived