Question 1

Some animals define a territory and defend it.Maintaining a territory costs in terms of the energy expended in defense and puts the defender and the aggressor at risk of an injury that could cost their life.What benefits do organisms derive from keeping a territory?

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A)   Obtaining a mate and defeating predators
B)   Keeping a constant supply of food and encouraging other species to settle in the area
C)   Encouraging other species to settle in the area and obtaining a mate
D)   Obtaining a mate and keeping a constant supply of food
E)   Defeating predators and encouraging other species to settle in the areaF) A) and D)
G) A) and C)

Question 2

Fifty days after hatching a white-crowned sparrow will never be able to sing a normal song if reared in isolation.This is an example of

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A)   a sensitive period.
B)   a sign stimulus.
C)   an innate behavior.
D)   fixed action pattern.
E)   habituation.F) A) and B)
G) A) and C)

Question 3

Male birds court females of the correct species because they look like their mother.This is an example of

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A)   an innate behavior.
B)   a learned behavior.
C)   an altruistic act.
D)   imprinting.
E)   a fixed action pattern.F) A) and D)
G) A) and E)

Question 4

Imprinting helps birds

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A)   perform the proper courtship ritual.
B)   defend their territory.
C)   recognize a member of their own species.
D)   form a fixed action pattern.
E)   build a better nest.F) B) and E)
G) B) and D)

Question 5

Many sterile worker bees give their lives to save a beehive from an attack by bears,etc.In such cases,we now know

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A)   these female worker bees are more related to hive offspring than they would be if they were themselves fertile and mated - it is "calculated selfishness."
B)   this is really a case of bees consciously understanding the need to preserve the nest for their individual benefit and they might survive if all work together.
C)   each female worker is waiting to get her chance to reproduce.
D)   this is a case of sexual selection.
E)   the system is not yet understood.F) B) and C)
G) A) and E)

Question 6

When an ant finds a source of food,such as an open sugar bin in a kitchen,it returns to the nest leaving a trail that other ants can follow to the sugar.This is a case of

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A)   innate knowledge of where food is located.
B)   a learned response that is an advantage of social insects.
C)   a pheromone pathway.
D)   marking territory.
E)   higher reasoning, just as a hiker leaving signs along a trail.F) A) and E)
G) A) and C)

Question 7

Kin selection is a form of

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A)   altruism.
B)   territoriality.
C)   imprinting.
D)   confrontation.
E)   sexual selection.F) A) and C)
G) A) and B)

Question 8

Describe the classical conditioning experiment of Ivan Pavlov.

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Pavlov would ring a bell each time the d...

Question 9

A digger wasp continues to close its nest even though the researcher has removed the nest's contents.This shows that nest-closing behavior in the digger wasp is

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A)   a learned behavior.
B)   an imprinted behavior.
C)   a fixed action pattern.
D)   an insight learning behavior.
E)   a classical conditioned behavior.F) A) and C)
G) None of the above

Question 10

List and describe the two types of associative learning.

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1.Classical conditioning is the presenta...

Question 11

Which experiment most closely confirms the linkage between DNA  →\rarr→  a gene  →\rarr→  a gene product  →\rarr→  the behavior that results from that product?

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A)   experiments with the inland and coastal garter snakes and their food preferences
B)   experiments with the Fischer lovebirds and their nest-building behavior
C)   experiments with laughing gull chicks and their pecking behavior to solicit food from the mother gull
D)   experiments with white-crowned sparrows and the critical period for learning bird songs
E)   experiments with Aplysia snails and their egg-laying behavior F) D) and E)
G) B) and C)

Question 12

____ is a system in which animals arrange themselves in a pecking order.The animal above takes precedence over the one below.

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A)   Imprinting
B)   Inclusive fitness
C)   Dominance hierarchy
D)   Altruism
E)   Circadian rhythmF) A) and D)
G) C) and E)

Question 13

The pecking behavior of laughing gull chicks becomes more accurate with time.This is most likely an example of

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A)   a fixed action pattern.
B)   innate behavior.
C)   learning.
D)   imprinting.
E)   altruistic behavior.F) D) and E)
G) A) and B)

Question 14

You are passing through one of the science buildings on a University campus when you see a researcher come out of his laboratory and go into another room.You hear and then see a duck come out of the lab and run to follow the researcher into the other room.The duck's behavior can best be described as

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A)   a fixed action pattern.
B)   classical conditioning.
C)   imprinting.
D)   operant conditioning.
E)   altruistic.F) A) and D)
G) A) and E)

Question 15

Scientists can state that all behavior has a genetic basis because

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A)  they have proved that all aspects of behavior are coded in the animal's genome.
B)  as with other life characteristics,there is no other source beyond what can be coded in DNA.
C)  scientists do not believe in anything beyond natural phenomena arising from the structure of matter.
D)  an animal inherits its anatomy and physiology with which it performs behaviors.
E)  animal behaviorists such as B.F.Skinner have reduced all behavior to biology.F) B) and E)
G) D) and E)

Question 16

That behavior often has a learned component was shown by studying the

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A)   migration of birds.
B)   altruism of human beings.
C)   feeding behavior of baby gull chicks.
D)   singing patterns of song birds.
E)   feeding behavior of baby gull chicks AND singing patterns of song birds.F) All of the above
G) A) and C)

Question 17

In most species the _______ invests most of the energy in raising the young and the _______ chooses the mate.

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A)   Male: female
B)   Female: male
C)   Male: male
D)   Female: female
E)   They both invest energy equally and raise the young together.F) All of the above
G) C) and D)

Question 18

In reciprocal altruism the helper "gains" a fitness benefit.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 19

What mechanism allows bees to compensate for the movement of the sun when they return to the hive and do a waggle dance?

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A)   the ability to detect the earth's magnetic field
B)   always doing the waggle dance outside where the sun is visible
C)   a biological clock
D)   imprinting
E)   a mental map of the region encoded by learning when youngF) B) and E)
G) A) and D)

Question 20

List the four main methods of communication among animals.

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1.chemical communica...

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That behavior often has a learned component was shown by studying the

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Scientists can state that all behavior has a genetic basis because

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Imprinting helps birds

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____ is a system in which animals arrange themselves in a pecking order.The animal above takes precedence over the one below.

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The pecking behavior of laughing gull chicks becomes more accurate with time.This is most likely an example of

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Fifty days after hatching a white-crowned sparrow will never be able to sing a normal song if reared in isolation.This is an example of

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Which experiment most closely confirms the linkage between DNA →\rarr→ a gene →\rarr→ a gene product →\rarr→ the behavior that results from that product?

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Male birds court females of the correct species because they look like their mother.This is an example of

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List and describe the two types of associative learning.

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List the four main methods of communication among animals.

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Some animals define a territory and defend it.Maintaining a territory costs in terms of the energy expended in defense and puts the defender and the aggressor at risk of an injury that could cost their life.What benefits do organisms derive from keeping a territory?

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A digger wasp continues to close its nest even though the researcher has removed the nest's contents.This shows that nest-closing behavior in the digger wasp is

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Many sterile worker bees give their lives to save a beehive from an attack by bears,etc.In such cases,we now know

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When an ant finds a source of food,such as an open sugar bin in a kitchen,it returns to the nest leaving a trail that other ants can follow to the sugar.This is a case of

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In most species the _______ invests most of the energy in raising the young and the _______ chooses the mate.

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What mechanism allows bees to compensate for the movement of the sun when they return to the hive and do a waggle dance?

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Describe the classical conditioning experiment of Ivan Pavlov.

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In reciprocal altruism the helper "gains" a fitness benefit.

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