Abnormal behaviours
5 important questions on Abnormal behaviours
What is abnormal dog behavior?
What types of abnormal behavior are there?
- Abnormal repetitive behavior (ARB): repetitive behaviors induced by
- Frustration
- Repeated attempts to cope
- Central nervous (brain) dysfunction - Stereotypies: repeated, relatively invariant sequence of movements which has no obvious purpose.
- Behavior with no obvious external stimulus.
What are the features of abnormal behavior?
- Behavior is no longer related to achieving a certain goal
- Behavior is strongly increased or decreased
- Enormous variation between behaviors
- Individual variation
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What are the causes for abnormal behavior?
- Medical
- Breed deposition
- No fulfillment of behavioral needs
What is the difference between abnormal behaviors and conflict behaviors?
- Short in duration -> conflict solved
- Context dependent
- Many behaviors can arise as conflict behaviors (lower ranking behaviors like comfort)
- Long in duration -> conflict not solved
- Independent of context
- Often arises from conflict behaviors
- Many different causes
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