Unit 6 animal behavior pretest

Which of the following would you classify as habituation?

8. You enter a room and hear a fan motor. After a period of time, you are no longer aware of the sound of that fan motor. C. One morning you are awakened to a beep beep beep from a garbage truck working on a new early morning schedule. The next week the garbage truck arrives at the same time and makes the same noise, but does not wake you up.

Fred and Joe, two unrelated mature male gorillas, encounter one another. Fred is courting a female. Fred grunts as Joe comes in here. As Joe continues to advance, Fred begins drumming pounding his chest and bares his teeth. At this, she rolls on the ground on his back, then gets up and quickly leaves. This behavioral pattern is repeated several times during The Mating Season. Choose the most specific behavior described by this example.

A. Agonistic Behavior

Which of the following is least related to the others?

A. Fixed action pattern

For a behavior to evolve under the influence of natural selection, that behavior

A. Improve survival and reproduction

Which of the following is true about imprinting?

A. It may be triggered by physical or chemical stimuli

A stickleback fish will allow a fish model as long as the model has red coloring.

A. Sign stimulus

Parental protective behavior in turkey's is triggered by the cheeping sound of young chicks.

A. Sign stimulus

Nocturnal animals that have a poorly developed sense of smell are most likely to communicate by

A. Sound signals

You turn on the light and observe cockroaches screen too dark hiding places. What have you observed?

A. Taxis

Animals are least likely to migrate out of an area where

A. There is little or no seasonal change in weather

Which of the following statements are true of fixed action patterns?

A. They are highly stereotyped comment instinctive behaviors. B. They are triggered by sign stimuli in the environment and, once begun, or continue to completion. C. An appropriate stimulus can sometimes trigger them.

Fred and Joe,

Agonistic Behavior

Upon observing a golden eagle flying over head, a Sentry prairie dog gives a warning call to other foraging members of the prairie dog community

Altruistic Behavior

What type of signal is brief and can work among obstructions at night

Auditory

Competition for limited resources can involve each of the following except

B. Circadian rhythms

Male insects attempt to meet with our kids but eventually stopped responding to them.

B. Habituation

A type of learning that can occur only during a brief period of early life and results in a behavior that is difficult to modify through later experiences is called

B. Imprinting

When you use knowledge and experience to figure out why a lamp in your house will not light, you are using

B. Insight learning

An animal is most likely to enter into dormancy when

B. Resources are most difficult to find

How do altruistic Behavior arise through natural selection

By its actions, the altruist increases the likelihood that some of its genes will be passed On to the Next Generation

A chemical produced by an animal that serves as a communication to another animal of the same species is called

C. A pheromone

In Pavlov's experiment on classical conditioning, dogs

C. Associated and new stimulus with the reward

Every morning at the same time, John went into the den to feed his new tropical fish. After a few weeks John noticed that the fish would swim to the top of the tank as soon as he would enter the room. This is a good example of

C. Classical conditioning

Learning in which and Associated Samuel I may be used to elicit the same behavioral response as the original sign stimulus is called

C. Classical conditioning

Which of the following statements about learning and behavior is incorrect?

C. Classical conditioning involves trial-and-error learning.

In some species of balloon flights, males spin balloons of silk and carry them with lying. That's a female approach is one of the males and accept his balloon, the two will fly off to me. This type of behavior is an example

C. Courtship

After a young duck imprints on a nonliving model of an adult duck, the young duck will

C. Follow only that model

Insight learning is a form of behavior that

C. Involves applying something already learned to a new situation

Sal bugs become more active in dry areas and less active in humid areas. This is an example of

C. Kinesis

The core idea of sociobiology is that

C. Much human behavior has evolved by natural selection

Imprinting is a form of behavior that

C. Occurs during a specific time in young animals

Complex inborn behaviors include each of the following except

C. Potato washing in macaques

When Disturbed, certain moths lift their front Wings to expose I like markings on their hind Wings. This Behavior would most effective against predators that hunt by

C. Sight

A salmon goes back to its home stream to spawn.

C. imprinting

Sparrows are receptive to learning songs only during a sensitive period.

C. imprinting

migration is behavior that is usually influenced by

Changing seasons

A pheromone is a type of

Chemical messenger

The cage containing male mosquitoes has a small earphone placed on top, through which the sound of a female mosquito is played. All the males immediately fly to the earphone and go through all of the steps of copulation. What is the best explanation for this Behavior

Copulation is a fixed action pattern, and the female flight sound is a sign stimulus that initiates it

A guinea pig loves the lettuce kept in the refrigerator and squeals each time the refrigerator door opens.

D. Classical conditioning

The type of learning that causes specially trained dogs to salivate when they hear bells is

D. Classical conditioning

Animals that have very simple nervous systems cannot

D. Exhibit complex behaviors

It is advantageous for grazing mammals together in groups because

D. Offer greater protection from predation

A type of bird similar to a chickadee learn to pick through the cardboard tops of milk bottles left on doorsteps and drink the cream from the top.

E Operant conditioning

Loss of responsiveness to stimuli that can be a little or no information is

E. Habituation

Which of the following is least related to the others?

E. Optimal foraging

The members of a society

Exhibit a type of social behavior

Which of the following is not a type of social behavior

Habituation

Is circadian rhythm is a

Has a daily pattern

A mother goat can recognize its own kid by smell

Imprinting

A salmon returns to its home stream to spawn what term best applies to this Behavior

Imprinting

The ability of salmon to recognize their homes stream at spawning time is an example of

Imprinting

What type of learning that can occur only during a brief period of early life and results in a behavior that is difficult to modify through later experiences is called

Imprinting

Which of the following is not required for a behavioral trait to evolve by natural selection

In each individual come in the form of the behavior is determined entirely by genes

A human baby performs the sucking Behavior perfectly when it is put in the presence of the nipple of his mother's breast

Innate behavior

A stimulus is an

Internal or external signal

Which of the following terms is not closely related to the others

Learned behavior.

Any change in which a behavior is altered as a result of experience is called

Learning

The youngest to imprint on an object, that object must

Move

Which of the following statements about evolution of behavior is correct

Natural selection will save your behaviour that enhances survival and reproduction

Scientists have tried raising endangered whooping cranes in captivity by using sandhill cranes as foster parents. This strategy is no longer used to because

None of the Foster whooping cranes form to meeting pair bond with another whooping cream

What type of signal is long-lasting and works at night

Olfactory

The type of learning that begins with a random behavior that is rewarded is called

Operant conditioning

Trial-and-error learning is also known as

Operant conditioning

Karl Von Frisch demonstrated that European honey bees communicate the location of distant Food Source by

Performing a long, straight run during a waggle dance

A chemical produced by an animal that serves as the communications with other animals of the same species is called

Pheromone

The resources in a territory can include all of the following except

Predators

Animals use pheromones to communicate

Reproductive Readiness common species recognition, gender recognition, Danger

Parental protective behaviors in turkey's is triggered by keeping sons of young chicks what term applies to this Behavior

Sign stimulus

Dolphins communicate with one another mainly through

Sound

Although many chimpanzees live in environments containing oil palm nuts, members of only a few populations use stones to crack open the nuts. The likely explanation is that

The cultural tradition of using stones to crack nuts has arisen in only some populations

Which of the following is true of innate behaviors

They are expressed in most individuals in a population

What type of signal is fast and requires daylight with no obstructions

Visual

Animal communication involves what type of sensory information

Visual, auditory, olfactory and tactile

the process in which an animal stops responding to a repetitive stimulus is called

habituation