General Behavior
The study of animal behavior
What is ethology?
The ranking of fear, anxiety, and stress
What is the FAS scale?
Pairing a neutral stimulus with a positive one
What is classical conditioning?
A heightened physical or emotional state
What is arousal?
Maintaining hands-on contact with a patient throughout the exam
What is a touch gradient?
Specific consequences that are associated with a voluntary behavior
What is operant conditioning?
Behaviors such as scratching displayed out of context
What are displacement behaviors?
Supportive, low-stress restraint methods
Adding something good after a behavior to increase that behavior
What is positive reinforcement?
Giving animals an outlet to perform species specific behaviors
What is enrichment?
The result of multiple stressful stimuli happening in short succession
What is trigger stacking?
Direct exposure to a stimulus that causes intense stress and anxiety
What is flooding?
Highly repetative, functionless behavior
What is stereotypic behavior?
A frozen state that occurs after repeated stress
What is learned helplessness?
Adding something the animal deems negative in order to decrease a behavior
What is positive punishment?