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WorksheetsTest 1 practice
Total questions: 11
Worksheet time: 8mins
What type of outcome are you using if you give a dog praise and positive attention when it performs a behaviour on command?
Postive reinforcement
Negative reinforcement
Positive punishment
Negative punishment
What type of outcome is this? Releasing the physical pressure of the rein on a horse when it turns right.
Positive reinforcement
Negative reinforcement
Positive punishment
Negative punishment
Which of the following is a term to describe using successive approximations to get to a desired behaviour?
Classical conditioning
Fitness
Shaping
Habituation
_______ conditioning is a type of learning that affects voluntary, goal-directed behaviour.
classical
operant
imprinting
hair
A time budget gives an estimate of which of these measures of different behaviours per day?
Meanings
Frequencies
Durations
Intensity
The kitten is meowing because it cannot see its mother. This is which type of explanation?
Developmental
Causal
Functional
Phylogenetic
Which of the following might increase an animal's motivation to perform a behaviour? Select all that apply.
Hunger, if a food reward is expected
The smell of a favourite food treat waiting
Discomfort that will stop when they perform the correct behaviour
Which types of learning happen most easily when an animal is very young? Select all correct answers.
Imprinting
Habituation to other animals e.g. humans
Operant conditioning
A (a) stimulus is one that helps an animal distinguish between when performing a behaviour will get a desired outcome and when it will not.
A list of behaviours with clear descriptions to use in scientific observations is called an (a)
Nursing from the mother is which type of behaviour for young mammals like kittens?
Innate
Learned
