Quiz 1

........may be thought of as evolved modifiability.

Learning

The rooting of pigs (for worms, larvae, and truffles) is an example of......

MAPS

Instincts are now often called......

Modal action patterns

Learning is a ........in.......due to.....

Response, behavior, experience

The gollypod, a fictitious aquatic animal, breaks out in a cold sweat whenever exposed to the sun. This reaction is most likely....

a reflex

A reflex is.....

a relationship between an event and a simple response

Most mutations........

are not helpful to survival

A stimulus is an environmental event that is capable of affecting......

behavior

Experience refers to........

changes in the enviornment

The author of your text believes that learning is an evolved mechanism for coping with.......

changes in the enviornment

Repeated exposure to a stimulus that evokes a reflex response results in

habituation

The figure below most likely illistrates... (It is a graph with the line reducing)

habituation

The chief advantage of learning over natural selection as a means of adapting to change is that learning........

is faster

The chief limitation of natural selection as a means of adapting to change is that......

it is slow

Teenagerus Americanus, a two-legged ape indigenous to North America, breaks out in a cold swear whenever exposed to elevator music. This reaction is most likely.....

learned behavior

Behavior is anything an animal or person does that can be...

measured

The cowbird deposits its eggs in the nests of other birds. This is likely a.....

modal action pattern

Modal action patterns are elicited or induced by events called....

releasers

The evidence from biology suggests that the firsts "eyes" were not eyes at all but

sensitive cells

A thumbtack stuck in a bulletin board several feet away is less likely to affect your behavior than a thumbtack placed on the chair on which you are sitting. Even though both exampled involved thumbtack, the second is more likely to qualify as a

stimulus