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What is affiliation (in terms of social behavior)? |
social behaviors that bring animals/conspecifics together. |
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What is aggression (in terms of social behavior)? |
social behaviors that move animals/conspecifics apart. |
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Benefits of affiliation |
group defense, increase mating opportunities, for predator detection etc. |
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______(animal) have been important in studies of affliation. |
Answer: voles. |
A type of rodent. |
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What voles are socially MONOGAMOUS, and what voles are socially POLYGAMOUS? |
Monogamous>> prairie voles. Polygamous>> meadow voles. |
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What does nucleus accumbens role in terms of social behavior? |
As part of the reward system. |
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When copulating, what main hormone is released? |
Oxytocin. |
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What does oxytocin + reward system gives? |
Pair bond formation. |
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Injection of vasopressin or V1 receptor ___________(fill in the blanks) pair bonding in voles? |
Facilitates. |
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Vasopressin also ____________(fill in the blanks) the onset of aggression that is observed in male voles after mating. |
Promotes. |
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Effects of gonadal steroid hormones in males and females partner preferences? |
No observed effect. |
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Effects of corticosterone in males and females partner preferences? |
males>> increased partner preference.
Females>> decreased partner preference. |
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Close contact _________ (increases/decreases) opioid release? |
Increases. |
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Naloxone + heroine in social behvaior? |
No effect. |
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Naloxone goes up, then the time for the chicks to calm down ____________ increases/decreases? |
Increases. |
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Aggression and status _____________ (increases/decreases) as testosterone increases. |
Increases. |
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Is aggression a social behavior? |
Yes. |
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What is the relationship between the horns in red deer and status? |
They are unable to win in fights, so they do not gain in status. |
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What is the relationship between serotonin and aggression? |
Low serotonin is associated with high aggression and vice versa. |
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What is the relationship of winning and blood androgen concentrations? |
Positive relationship. Winning>> high androgen levels. Losing>> reduction in androgen levels. |
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How and why does aggression increases at puberty? |
Due to plasma concentrations of androgens increase at the time of puberty, which leads to elevated levels in aggression seen. |
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Most common standardized test to test aggression? |
Resident-intruder paradigm |
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Aggression and interest/reason to fight? |
No interest or a reason to fight equals to no aggression. |
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When house a lot of anestrus females and put a male into the same cage with these females, is there aggression? |
Definitely! |
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What hormones are affiliative behaviors affected by? |
Vasopressin, oxytocin, glucocorticoids, opioids. |
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Aggressive behavior in blood testosterone concentration in mice? |
Do not correlate. |
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What does challenge hypothesis suggests? |
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Hormones make an individual _________ (more/less) sensitive to behavior. |
More. |
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Are there signals the prey could give to the predators to stop them from killing them? |
No. |
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What could result when animals are separated from one another? |
Could result in distress vocalizations or hormonal change, in particular, cortisol release. |
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