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Displacement activity

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Displacement activities occur when an animal experiences high motivation for two or more conflicting behaviours: the resulting displacement activity is usually unrelated to the competing motivations. [1]

15 relations: Adriaan Kortlandt, Anxiogenic, Anxiolytic, Comfort behaviour in animals, Displacement (psychology), Ethogram, Julian Huxley, Konrad Lorenz, Motivation, Negative affectivity, Nikolaas Tinbergen, Primate, Procrastination, Stress (biology), Vacuum activity.

Adriaan Kortlandt

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Anxiogenic

An anxiogenic or panicogenic substance is one that causes anxiety.

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Anxiolytic

An anxiolytic (also antipanic or antianxiety agent) is a medication or other intervention that inhibits anxiety.

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Comfort behaviour in animals

Comfort behaviours in animals are activities that help maintain the pelage, feathers, integuement or musculoskeletal system and increase the physical comfort of the animal.

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Displacement (psychology)

In Freudian psychology, displacement (Verschiebung, "shift, move") is an unconscious defence mechanism whereby the mind substitutes either a new aim or a new object for goals felt in their original form to be dangerous or unacceptable.

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Ethogram

An ethogram is a catalogue or inventory of behaviours or actions exhibited by an animal used in ethology.

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Julian Huxley

Sir Julian Sorell Huxley FRS (22 June 1887 – 14 February 1975) was a British evolutionary biologist, eugenicist, and internationalist.

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Konrad Lorenz

Konrad Zacharias Lorenz (7 November 1903 – 27 February 1989) was an Austrian zoologist, ethologist, and ornithologist.

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Motivation

Motivation is the reason for people's actions, desires, and needs.

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Negative affectivity

Negative affectivity (NA), or negative affect, is a personality variable that involves the experience of negative emotions and poor self-concept.

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Nikolaas Tinbergen

Nikolaas "Niko" Tinbergen (15 April 1907 – 21 December 1988) was a Dutch biologist and ornithologist who shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Karl von Frisch and Konrad Lorenz for their discoveries concerning organization and elicitation of individual and social behavior patterns in animals.

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Primate

A primate is a mammal of the order Primates (Latin: "prime, first rank").

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Procrastination

Procrastination (from Latin's "procrastinare", that translates in to: the prefix pro-, 'forward', and the suffix -crastinus, 'till next day' from cras, 'tomorrow') is the avoidance of doing a task that needs to be accomplished.

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Stress (biology)

Physiological or biological stress is an organism's response to a stressor such as an environmental condition.

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Vacuum activity

Vacuum activities (or vacuum behaviours) are innate, fixed action patterns of animal behaviour that are performed in the absence of the external stimuli (releaser) that normally elicit them.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Displacement_activity

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