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35 Cards in this Set
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Aeorphagia |
Pathological and excessive swallowing of air |
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agnostic behaviour |
ANY BEHAVIOUR ASSOCIATED WITH ATTACK THREAT OR DEFENCE. Includes escape and passivity |
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Appetitive |
first phase of a behaviour |
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aversion therapy |
threatment of an unwelcome behaviour by associating the behaviour with something aversive |
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causal factors |
the inputs to a decision making centre each of which is an interpretation of an external change. |
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conspecific |
belonging to the same species |
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consummatory act |
an act that greatly reduces the levels of causal factors which promote a certain activity so that the activity is terminated |
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density dependence |
processes which are influenced by physiological or environmental factors so that they only occur when the density of population increases |
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Displacement activity |
an activity performed in a context that appear to an observer to be out of place |
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epimiletic behaviour |
provision of care and attention eg nursing |
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ethogram |
detailed description of the behavioural features of a particular species |
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fitness |
a concept refering to one organisms ability to succeed relative to another's |
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fraser darling effect |
stimulation of reproductive activity in the presence of other members of the species in addition to the mating pair |
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frustration |
the process thought to occur when an animal is thwarted from performing a highly motivated behaviour |
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geophagia |
eating soil |
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group effect |
alteration in behaviour brought on by common participation. eg social facilitation where there is an increase in activity brought on by the sight or sound of others performing the same activity |
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habituation |
the waning of a response, which could still be shown, to a repeated stimulus |
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home range |
the area a free ranging animal learns thoroughly and uses regularly. the home range may or may not be defended, defended home ranges are called territories |
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ingestive behaviour |
behaviour associated with feeding, milk and water |
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initiator |
the individual in a group who is the first to act a certain way, initiating a new group activity |
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intention movements |
the preparatory movements that an animal may go through when switching to a new behaviour |
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intersucking |
suckling at appeandages that aren't udders |
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lignophagia |
wood eating |
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motivation |
the process within the brain controlling which behaviours and physiological changes occur and when |
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Motivational State |
a combination of the levels of all causal factors |
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need |
a deficiency in an animal that can be remedied by obtaining a particular resource or or responding to a particular environment or bodily stimulus |
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observational learning |
learning from watching another |
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over crowding |
the point beyond which crowding reduces the fitness of individuals in the group |
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pica |
the seeking out and eating foreign objects such as clothing, wood and bones |
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redirected behaviour |
the direction of some activity from the primary target toward another less appropriate object. How do you know what the primary object is though? |
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ritual behaviour |
an originally variable sequence of behaviours that has become an almost unchangeable sequence |
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Sensitisation |
the increasing of a response to repeated stimulus |
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social facillitation |
behaviour that is initiated or increased in rate or frequency but the presence of another animal carrying out that behaviour |
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stereotypy |
a repeated, relatively invariant sequence of movements which have no obvious function |
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tonic immobility |
behaviour state of a few seconds or more during which the animal makes no movement as a consequence of some temporary environmental situation or pathological condition |
