Y4 Behaviour Flashcards
Name the 4 positive/engaging emotional motivations
Desire seeking
Social play
Lust
Care
Name the 4 negative/protective emotional motivations
Frustration
Fear-anxiety
Pain
Panic grief
What are the main features of desire seeking
Object play
Social companionship
Predation
What are the main features of social play
Learning about species specific behaviour, how to respond and how to deliver threat
What are the main features of care
Paternal care, nurturing social interaction
What are the main features of lust
Reproduction
What are the main features of frustration
Response to failure to succeed
What are the main features of fear-anxiety
Protection
Anticipate a threat
What are the main features of pain?
Self protection
What are the main features of panic-grief
To regain nurturing support
List the desirable/encouraged behaviour of social play
Dog-dog plat
Kittens and puppies interacting
List the desirable/encouraged behaviour of desire seeking
Social interaction, companionship, eating, training cues, object play
List the desirable/encouraged behaviour of care
Parenteral interactions, care of the vulnerable
List the desirable/encouraged behaviour of lust
For breeding context
List the problematic behaviour of social play
Interspecies social play
Age differences
List the problematic behaviour of desire seeking
Stealing food, unwanted predatory behaviour
List the problematic behaviour of lust
Unwanted sexual behaviour – intra and inter specific eg mounting
List the desirable/encouraged behaviour of fear anxiety
Inhibition leading to easier clinical examination
Confrontation from another with real threat, traffic, heat, working roles for dogs
List the desirable/encouraged behaviour of pain
Diagnostic purposes, monitoring of clinical pain, acute pain response
List the desirable/encouraged behaviour of panic-grief
Not wanting to be separated from nurturer, puppies, kittens reacting to separation from mother
List the desirable/encouraged behaviour of frustration
Working roles for dogs, sporting roles for dogs, increased speed and intensity of behaviour
List the problematic behaviour of fear-anxiety
“resource guarding” unjustified perception of threat or potential, vet visits, cats hiding, visitors, traffic, other animals, separation related behaviour
List the problematic behaviour of pain
acute pain if not manageable by the individual, chronic pain
List the problematic behaviour of panic grief
Separation related behaviour
List the problematic behaviour of frustration
Confrontation, increased speed and intensity of behaviour – ball under sofa, lust frustration, feline handling
How do pets use their behaviour to increase availability of information?
Appeasement
Inhibition
How do pets use their behaviour to increase distance and decrease interaction
Avoidance
Repulsion
What are the signs of appeasement
Sniff, roll over
Lick, urinate
Fiddle
What are the signs of inhibition?
Watch
Stare
Freeze
What are the signs of avoidance?
Look away
Run away
Flight
What are the signs of repulsion?
Grumble
Bite
Flight
How can a cat at the vets go from an avoidance to a repulsion response?
- Cat attempts to remain in the carrier, Vet allows cat to stay in carrier, Vet covers the cat with a towel
- Cat develops a perception of safety and success
- Cat perceives that avoidance is successful and reaches a place of emotional safety decreasing interaction with the trigger for their protective emotion (the veterinary environment and personnel)
- There is no need for the cat to: increase the intensity of the response by trying to physically flee or change the response to one of repulsion and start to hiss and swipe.
BUT - Failure to recognise the purpose of a behavioural response can result in perception of failure for the cat - failure of the avoidance response leads to selection of another response at the same intensity
When does escalation of behaviour intensity continue until?
Until a perception of safety (physical and/or emotional) is achieved
When one response is unavailable or perceived to be unsuccessful what then happens?
Selection of an alternative is likely
- The next response that is selected is most likely to occur at the same intensity as the previous response rather than starting with low intensity options and then escalating
How can you reduce the risk of escalation and selection of alternative responses?
Increase perception of success
When do behavioural responses to emotions become a cause for concern?
Compromised physical or cognitive health
Miscommunication between different species
Environments are sub-optimal - Physical, Social
