PENN FOSTER VETERINARY ASSISTANT PROGRAM - BEHAVIOR EXAM QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
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PENN FOSTER VETERINARY ASSISTANT PROGRAM - BEHAVIOR EXAM QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
Alpha Dog
The highest-ranking dog in any group
Behavior Modification Programs
Training courses that use rewards and reprimands to stimulate changes in behavior.
Operant conditioning/instrumental lear...
PENN FOSTER VETERINARY ASSISTANT PROGRAM - BEHAVIOR
EXAM QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
Alpha Dog
The highest-ranking dog in any group
Behavior Modification Programs
Training courses that use rewards and reprimands to stimulate changes in behavior.
Operant conditioning/instrumental learning
Behaviorism
The ethological approach that holds that behavior is learned rather than genetically
programmed
Breaking Litter Box Training
When a cat urinates or defecates someplace other than its litter box
Breeding
Behaviors that produce and provide for a new generation
Carnivorous
Meat-eating animals
Classical Conditioning
The type of conditioned learning that associates stimuli that occur at approximately the
same time or in roughly the same area
Ex: ringing a bell every time you feed an animal
Classical Ethology
Asserts that much of what animals know is instinctive or innate
Classroom Lesson
Dog-training sessions conducted in classes with other dogs and owners, geared to
familiarizing a dog with other dogs and strangers, thereby minimizing aggressive
tendencies
, Conditioned Response
a learned response to a previously neutral stimulus
Ex: The feeling of hunger in response to the ringing of a bell associated with feeding
time
Conditioned Stimulus
Sensory input unrelated to a simple reflex behavior
ex: sound of a whistle plays when you smell food.
Corrective Collar
A sliding chain collar, also called a choke collar or choke chain, designed to apply
pressure on a dog's neck with a slight tug
Courtship
the process of finding and attracting a mate
Dance
A complex pattern of movements performed by a bee that directs other bees to a food
source
Estrus
The second stage of heat, during which the female becomes fertile
Ethology
The study of animal behavior
Evolution
The scientific theory that characterizes all related organisms as descended from
common ancestors
Feeding
The taking or giving of food
Fixed Action Pattern
A term used by early ethologists to describe stereotypical or predictable species
behaviors
Function
In ethological terms, in means the survival value of a behavior
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