Essays about: "Animal ethology and psychology"

Found 2 essays containing the words Animal ethology and psychology.

1. 1. PTSD hos hund : en enkätstudie om psykiskt trauma hos hund

   University essay from SLU/Dept. of Animal Environment and Health

   Author : Caroline Alupo; [2017]
   Keywords : canis familiaris; ethology; canine PTSD; post-traumatic stress disorder; dog psychology;

   Abstract : Canine post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a subject in need of scientific attention, as dogs suffer greatly from traumatisation. Previous animal studies prove the disorder not only to be a human phenomenon. READ MORE

3. 2. Towards testing of identity concepts in horses: conditional discrimination learning

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Kognitionsvetenskap

   Author : Björn Samuelsson; [2008]
   Keywords : identity matching-to-sample; horses; conditional discrimination learning; animal behavior; animal learning; concept formation; Animal ethology and psychology; Djurs etologi och psykologi; Biology and Life Sciences;

   Abstract : Experiments have shown that horses are capable of some types of discrimination learning and that they can learn the concept of relative size, but it is unknown whether horses can select a test stimulus by similarity to a sample stimulus. In this project, four horses failed to learn a two choice matching-to-sample task without a mechanism that ensured that they paid attention to the sample stimulus. READ MORE