Regulatory Behavior Paper
PSY/340
2/9/2015
Tiffany Tibbs

Regulatory Behavior Paper
Temperature is very important in many ways and more than one and is very vital to human and animal lives. As humans we don’t hibernate but, animals do and it is amazing how smart they are that they literally will tuck away for spring and some for winter. Researchers tend to think it’s because certain animals are mating but, in actuality it’s just too cold for them. Even as I look out my window and see the smaller birds who I feed throughout the year, peaking above my ledge right outside my window peeking for food, they do not want to come out at all.
The research team hypothesized that there was a minimum weight threshold below which the birds have been limited yet are needed to test the validity of this interesting hypothesis. For example, and in stark contrast to behavioral studies. Hypothesis on what defines the cognitive rift between humans and animals. He identifies four key differences in human thought that make it unique. Animals, for example, have "laser beam" intelligence, in which a specific solution is used to solve a specific problem. But these solutions cannot be applied to new situations or to solve different kinds of problem. In contrast, humans have "floodlight" cognition, allowing us to use thought processes in new ways and to apply the solution of one problem to another situation
Their behavior is almost survival and unlike ducks and larger bird like wild turkey they love the cold as you seem some tucking their leg to keep warm somehow. Temperature regulation works for many animals they know actually what to do with the changes of the weather. The homeostatic process helps animals and in the same process their behavioural activities set a range or a set point to help maintain. Their body temperature maintains with the change of environment and they utilize their physiological process as well as their behavioral to deal with certain temperatures.
There are some animals who don’t do well in temperature regulations such as the rat when a baby has no protection as in the skin is thin, no fat and no hair so it has no chance to live in cold weather. I saw this happening with baby birds that had fallen in the summer time from the top ledge I spoke of early and the parents of the birds did not come to their rescue there were three babies, so my family tried giving them water and they moved a bit, then we tried putting them back up the ledge with their family and we stuck fake flower in the holes so they wouldn’t fall out again. I don’t think they would have made it in such hot weather and no care.
Animals are very smart and the reason why they have many changes in their behavior is due to them being incline with the temperature regulation and they know what to do in the cold and in the hot weather. Their bodies are so regulates that when their bodies have a high temperature they can still move fast without getting tired. Psychologist did many testing with rats and how they do better in cooler weather environments. While we try to bundle up and blast the heat these animals need to find ways to keep themselves warm by puffing up their fur.
The temperature and the nervous system both can and do have impacts on our bodies and the way it functions. Animals and their sensorimotor can operate with the changes and their body temps help to indicate that the temperature has changed in the nervous system. Temperature is so temperament is can offset each other. The central autonomic deals with three different loops and they are spinal, limbic brain and hypothalamic but, thermoregulations is our more focus alongside eth hypothalamic with is the core to our temperature and we are dependent upon it. There is a set point and the function of our body’s activities and changes in our environments also can change temperature to our bodies.
We are homoeothermic and which means we can maintain to a certain degree to weather change due to the human body heat being around 98 degrees and this can change due to individuals own body temperature, sleep, or even when a woman may ovulate.
Thermoregulation balances our heat mechanisms and any loss that it will take to keep the body heat constant with temperature. Due to heat forever changing from form different temps of lower and higher. This can also cause conduction which can transfer heat from one thing or object to another. With sympatric nervous system is when a human sweats the body somehow cools down itself but, if the body then becomes cold it will then produce more heat to not have a loss of it. Anxiety or fear come by what we know of as the autonomic nervous system in turn gives some individuals panic attacks. There are two types of dis orders and these then help us to indicate our behavior response to it and why it puts us in an emotion of fear, aggression and full anxiety. Biogenic amine neurotransmitters have been studied the longest and are probably the best understood in terms of their relationship to psychological disturbances
Neurotransmitters, are at the heart of sending messages throughout our bodies and the chemical messages effect our sleep, fear, aggression and anxiety as well as other psychological areas. This transmitters consist of the Serotonin, biogenetic and Epinephrine just to name a few but, high levels of dopamine what is observed is aggression, fear and anxiety as well as individuals with attention disorders. Behaviors that deal with emotion can impact us more if they are negative and is connected with our anxieties and fear. The Amygdala can also produce behaviors in the same manner. Aggressive behavior comes from the neural control area and is the hierarchy of all others.
The hypothalamus deals with the behavior function, endocrine and autonomic and the hypothalamus has eight hormones for one is the temperature regulation, reproduction, physiological, emotional and control of our food. It also watches over our biological clock and can sustain and operate certain parts of us on a daily basis like our temperature, secretion and hunger and our menstrual. Hormones do affect our organs and need to be leveled so they are not inactive. Hormones are leveled by a numbered of cycled events in a controlled condition, temperature has to be appropriate in order for us to function correctly. Our thyroid also plays and important role in temperature and research shows that it can throw of the balance within us some individual have loss weight and some have loss with it not being regulated.
Homeostasis is directly connected to the hormone system and the regulation of temperature and in humans we control our bodies by thermoregulatory in the area of the hypothalamus. The receptors are working in union as well and the body adjust itself for our own individual temperature. With impairments for example an individual with MS, they are able to keep with regulating their bodies as well as we can with temperature. The impaired neutrals have difficulty and they hypothalamus can affect persons with MS from regulating their body temperatures. There are some self-regulation impairments that can contribute to behaviors that may arise and there are also impairment on the brain with the effects of utilizing alcohol.
Individual who drink can damage there system and damage areas in their brain leaving them not being able to function properly and their attention span is little or none and very disinhibited. Their cortical area and cognitive area are very impaired and by research this is done by neural imaging and the understanding of how our frontal brain works and what effects can happen when we do our take in certain things into our bodies. There are so many factors also that play an important role with some individuals the damage and breaking down of the neurotransmitter can be due to the alcohol usage. Researchers will continue to find the effects of regulatory behavior and all that it entails.
On a behavioral level, the immature cognition of adolescence is characterized as impulsive (i.e., lacking cognitive control) and risk taking, with these constructs used synonymously and without appreciation for distinct developmental trajectories for each. Human imaging and animal studies suggest distinct neurobiological and developmental trajectories for the neural systems that underlie these separate constructs of impulse control and risky decisions. supernatural accounts are no longer held by behavioral scientists, providential thinkers such as Paley must be credited for noticing an important characteristic of these behaviors—that they are essential to the survival and reproductive success of the animal, even though it is unlikely that the animal is mindful of their ultimate function.

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