Conditioning
When an animal is given a good item.
What is positive reinforcement?
An increased response to stimuli with increased exposure.
The study of animal behavior.
What is ethology?
The process of locating, obtaining, and consuming food.
What is foraging behavior?
When animals engage in practice for hunting, fighting, or mating.
What is play!
When an animal is given a bad item.
What is positive punishment?
When animals grow to ignore frequent, harmless stimulus.
What is habituation?
An action performed in response to stimulus.
What is a behavior?
Caring for, nursing, or guarding young.
What is parental care behaviors?
The emotion a cat is communicating when its ears are flat and pointing out to the side.
What is fearful?
Mikayla's favorite pet.
What is Jasper?
A type of learning that only occurs during a critical time frame and cannot be changed.
What is imprinting?
Anything that elicits a response.
What is a stimulus?
The process of attracting a mate, such as growing bright feathers, singing, or fighting.
What is courtship behavior?
When human emotions are incorrectly attributed to animals.
What is anthropomorphism?
When an animal has a good item taken away.
What is negative punishment?
When an animal learns to associate an unrelated response to a stimulus, such as bell ringing.
A sound, sight, or smell that is outside the animal.
What is an external stimulus?
The process of mating or giving birth.
What is reproductive behavior?
The emotion a dog is communicating when it quickly licks its lips.
What is uncertainty?
When an animal has a bad item taken away.
What is negative reinforcement?
Through trial and error, an animal learns to behave a certain way.
What is classical conditioning?
A feeling inside the animal.
What is an internal stimulus?
When animals act defensive of their space, food, mate, or offspring.
What is territorial behavior?
A highly stereotypical, innate behavior, that is performed to completion once begun.
What is a Fixed Action Pattern?