Read the summary and the most important questions on begrippen companion animals

• 1 H1 + 2

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• Secondary, self conscious evaluative

  - guilt, shame, embarrassment

• Social support hypothesis

  - companion animals provide social support and social interactions
  - reduce loneliness/isolation, lessen fear, reduce stress
  - present pet reduces heart rateand systolic blood pressure 
  - feel good hormones (oxytocin)

• Inferior parietal lobule (PFG)

  - mirror neurons
  - might be used by encodign the intentions of another

• Theory of mind (ToM)

  - grasp that anothers representational mental states can differ from ones own

• 2 H3

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• Emotional reactivity hypothesis

  - dogs are more tolerant and less aggressive than wolves, also when interacting with conspecifics

• Canine cooperation hypothesis

  - postulates that dog-human cooperation evolved on the basis of wolf-wolf cooperation

• Black box model

  - diagnosing model for problem behavours
  - can be used for any animal
  - physical/physiological/medical based (pain, inherited diseases, allergies, testosterone), genetics (breed), inadequate socialisation, traumatic experiences, learning, disbalance in status, unfulfilled behavioural needs (“bored”), restricted environment).

• 3 H4

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• Pet exaptation index (PEI)

  - how easy to domesticate an animal?
  - higher score is better suitable

• Stereotypic behaviour (SB)

  - a repeated relatively invariant sequence of movements which has no obvious purpose

• Abnormal repetitive behaviour (ARB)

  - can include stereotypic behaviours, but is more variable behaviour
  - Basal ganglia and their connection with the cortex can cause ARB's