BLY Chapter 45 Learning Curve

Kin selection

A form of natural selection favoring the spread of alleles that promote behaviors that help close relatives is called _____ selection.

development

A researcher is trying to determine the role that genes play in social grooming in apes (where one individual will pick insects or parasites off another). This researcher is asking a question under which of Tinbergen's classifications?

Adaptive

If bird song promotes an individual's ability to attract a mate and reproduce, then the song has a(n) _____ function.

innate

Instinctive behaviors that are carried out regardless of earlier experience are called _____ behaviors and are a product of an individual's genotype.

non-associative

Learning that occurs in the absence of any particular outcome such as reward or punishment is called _____ learning.

This bird will still be able to sing the White-crowned Sparrow song, as he can learn this song from the recording.

Recall the experiments of Peter Marler. If a male White-crowned Sparrow only hears (during his sensitive period) a recording of a male of the same species singing, how will this affect his ability to sing?

Air passing through a bird's specialized singing organ, the syrinx, vibrates the surrounding organs.

Which of the following mechanisms are causal explanations for bird song?

This behavior consists of a coordinated effort between several whales to generate a wave, which knocks a seal off an iceberg.

Which of the following statements about cooperative hunting in killer whales is true?

A male responds to a female-produced pheromone.

Which of the sentences below best supports the claim that natural selection has shaped a species-specific behavior?

Compared to hormone action, neurons are much less specific in their actions.

Which of the statements below about hormone effects on behavior is false?

Anaerobic bacteria from New Zealand that swim toward magnetic south immediately reverse their attraction to magnetic north when moved to a northern environmen

Which of the statements below about magnetotaxis in the anaerobic bacteria Aquaspirilium is not correct?

The sitter behavior is not adaptive because foragers will obtain all the food from the surrounding environment.

Which of the statements below about the behavioral effects governed by for S and for R in Drosophila is not correct?

Circadian clocks are completely dependent on the movement of the sun.

Which of the statements below about the circadian clock is not correct?

Conditioning occurs when an animal learns to link or associate two events.

Which of the statements below doesnot describe non-associative learning?

Philanthus wasps can locate their underground hive entrance through recognition of local landmarks.

Which of these statements provides evidence that some insects are capable of learning?