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