Animal Behaviour

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Across
  1. 4. a structured system of communication, using words, signs, or symbols to convey meaning through a social group's culture
  2. 5. a period of dating and getting to know each other with the goal of a long-term commitment, like marriage
  3. 8. The intensifying of an organism’s response to stimuli that did not originally produce such strong reactions.
  4. 10. learning, a sudden and spontaneous realization of a solution to a problem
  5. 13. everything that surrounds us, encompassing the complex of physical, chemical, and biological factors that act upon an organism or ecological community
  6. 16. events, objects, or factors that trigger a response in an organism
  7. 19. recovery, The tendency of a conditioned response that has undergone extinction to occur again after a rest period.
  8. 21. effect, Innate fear-provoking response associated with exposure to a novel stimulus.
  9. 23. reinforcer, A reinforcer that has acquired reinforcing value through learning by being paired with events that are already reinforcing.
  10. 25. schedule, A reinforcement schedule in which reinforcement is presented after a random number of correct responses.
  11. 26. conditioning, a learning method where voluntary behaviors are modified by consequences, specifically through reinforcement and punishment
  12. 27. a type of natural selection that considers the role relatives play
Down
  1. 1. seasonal movement of birds or animals from one region to another.
  2. 2. behavior intended to harm another person, animal, or property, which can be physical, verbal, or emotional
  3. 3. schedule, A reinforcement schedule where an animal is reinforced for the first emission of the target behavior after the end of a randomly determined time interval. It results in a very steady rate of behavior.
  4. 5. the imparting or exchanging of information or news.
  5. 6. The inability of an animal to act on a stimulus to perform a behavior because the number of performances required for reinforcement is too high.
  6. 7. rhythm, our body's internal, roughly 24-hour clock that regulates sleep-wake cycles, hormone release, body temperature, and other important physiological processes
  7. 9. conditioning, a learning process where a neutral stimulus becomes a conditioned stimulus by being repeatedly paired with an unconditioned stimulus that elicits a natural, unconditioned response
  8. 11. the process of making or becoming accustomed or used to something.
  9. 12. an area of land under the jurisdiction of a ruler or state.
  10. 14. reinforcement, Any reward perceptible by touch.
  11. 15. the way in which an animal or person acts in response to a particular situation or stimulus.
  12. 17. behavior, an unlearned, genetically programmed pattern of response to a specific stimulus, performed correctly the first time without practice
  13. 18. the aggregate of people living together in a more or less ordered community.
  14. 20. desensitization, A procedure by which an animal is allowed to gradually become comfortable with an unusual or frightening stimulus.
  15. 22. a rapid, early-life learning process where an animal forms a strong social attachment to a parent or other object
  16. 24. An automatic involuntary response or reaction to a stimulus based upon inherited characteristics of the nervous system.