FREE VETERINARY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT BEHAVIOR

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FREE VETERINARY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT BEHAVIOR

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-Guarantee passing score -97 Questions and Answers -format set of multiple-choice -Expert-Verified Explanation Question 1: What are 3 other methods to treat behavior problems other than through training techniques

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• Environmental modification i.e. moving litterbox
• Surgical Approaches i.e. spaying/neutiering
• Pharmaceutical Therapy (last resort)

Question 2: Naturalists

Answer:

Natural Scientists

Question 3: Avoidance Conditioning

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Learning that aggression will avoid conflict

Question 4: When do puppies tend to develop fear-induced aggression?

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Between 8 and 10 weeks of age and near puberty

Question 5: Positive Reinforcement

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Any immediate pleasant occurance that follows a behavior

Question 6: Punishment

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punishment is used to eliminate an undesireable behavior, NOT used to create a desired behavior, as in negative reinforcement

Question 7: Instinct

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A complex of unlearned responses characteristic of a species Question 8: Briefly describe Pavlov's famous experiment in classical conditioning

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Pavlov discovered that dogs automatically began to salivate at the sight of food. If he always rang a bell when he offered food, the dogs began to slowly associate theis unrelated stimulus with food. In time the sound of the bell alone would cause the d Question 9: What did ethologits Niko Tinbergen, Karl von Frisch, and Konrad lorenz win a Nobel prize in 1973

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They shared the Nobel Prize for their discoveries about the ways individual and social behavior patterns develop in groupings of animals

Question 10: House soiling

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Urinating or defecating inside the home

Question 11: What are the most common problems rodent owners confront

Answer:

• Biting
• Agression towards other rodents

Question 12: Aversion Therapy

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Creating a relationship between an unpleasant stimulus and an object that the nimal may be marking, chewing, or otherwise damaging. It is used to keep the animal away from a particular object or area. ie.double-sided sticky tape on a counter to keep cat

Question 13: What are reasons a bird screams or squawks?

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• Birds usually scream at dawn and dusk
• Distress
• Stress form environmental noise
• To alert owners they have forgotten to give them food or water.

Question 14: What should multiple-cat households have

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A least as many litter boxes as cats

Question 15: Wobble

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A training maneuver designed to disorient a bird by abruptly dropping the hand its perched upon

Question 16: What is the goal of reprimanding a pet?

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The goal of reprimanding a pet is to associate a behavior with danger or disorientation

Question 17: Operant

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Functioning or tending to produce effects Question 18: For positive reinforcement to be effective, the pleasant event must occure within ____ seconds of the behavior

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20 seconds

Question 19: Classical conditioning

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the type of conditioned learning that associates stimuli occurring at approximately the same time or in roughly the same area Question 20: What type of aggression is an animal most likely exhibiting that doesn't give a warning or threat prior to biting?

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Predatory Aggression

Question 21: Sensitive Period

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A specific stage early in an animal's life when imprinting occurs

Question 22: Separation Anxiety

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The bond is so strong that the dog feels anxiety when separated from the owner Question 23: What is the behavior modification technique that involves elimination of a probelm behavior by completely removing the reinforcement for the behavior

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extinction

Question 24: Counterconditioning

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Replaces an undesirable behavior with a desirabe one. it takes a stimulus linded to a negativ eemotion and reconditions/counterconditions the animal by linking the stimulus to be a positive emotional response.

Question 25: Clicker Training

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A clicker is used to signal to the animal that it performed th right behavior and will receive a reward.