Question 1

While walking along a trail in the woods you notice that your dog walks over to a tree and urinates on the base of the largest tree on the trail.Your dog's behavior is an example of

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A)   visual communication.
B)   auditory communication.
C)   tactile communication.
D)   chemical communication.
E)   learning.F) A) and D)
G) A) and C)

Question 2

Which of the following experiments would help support the idea that behavior can be influenced by the environment?

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A)   Robins who were raised in the nest of sparrows sing the sparrow song when they are older.
B)   Laughing gull chicks increase their pecking efficiency when presented with a model of the parents bill.
C)   A baby goose hatches out and the first object it sees is a red ball. The goose will follow the ball around as it grows up.
D)   Young blue jays eat a monarch for the first time and become ill. The birds stop preying upon monarchs after the experience.
E)   All of these are examples of how the environment can influence behavior.F) A) and B)
G) B) and E)

Question 3

An example of territoriality is

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A)   barnacles attached to a boat bottom.
B)   a red-winged blackbird singing to ward off other males and attract a female to the nest in his fence row.
C)   a cloud of moths attracted to a light.
D)   a swarm of mosquitoes hovering around a sweaty person.
E)   bees attracted to a flower garden.F) A) and D)
G) B) and C)

Question 4

Learning that is reinforced by rewards,a gradual strengthening of stimulus-response connections,is called

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A)   imprinting.
B)   operant conditioning.
C)   insight learning.
D)   extinction.
E)   motivation.F) None of the above
G) C) and D)

Question 5

Some fish give off a chemical when injured that signals to other fish that a predator is nearby.The chemical causes the uninjured fish to group together in a tight formation,move to the bottom of the water and cease movement to make it less likely that they will be preyed upon.

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A)   This is communication using a chemical signal.
B)   This is a futile attempt by the fish to survive.
C)   An unnecessary action since the predator already has killed its prey.
D)   This is a visual signal to the predator that they are prey items.
E)   This behavior will only work one time.F) A) and D)
G) A) and C)

Question 6

When training a dog to perform on a Television show the trainer first watches the dog's behavior,chooses one that approximates what the director has asked to have done and begins rewarding the dog every time he performs this natural behavior.Gradually the trainer changes when the reward is given altering the behavior toward the desired performance until this is what the dog does each time,in place of the natural behavior.The trainer has used __________ to train the dog.

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A)   tactile communication
B)   imprinting
C)   a fixed action pattern
D)   operant conditioning
E)   chemical communicationF) A) and C)
G) B) and D)

Question 7

The main result of the experiments with two groups of California garter snakes that varied in habitat and food was

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A)   the behavior was determined by the environment [terrestrial versus aquatic].
B)   the behavior was learned; one group learned to like to eat slugs, the other, fish.
C)   the behavior was general; the snakes ate anything that moved.
D)   the behavior was genetic, and hybrids had an intermediate response to the two food extracts.
E)   the behavior was imprinted by whatever they ate when they were first born.F) C) and D)
G) B) and E)

Question 8

What is a change in behavior that involves associating two separate events?

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

Question 9

Which of the following is a negative consequence of having a territory?

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A)   energy expended to defend the territory
B)   access to food sources
C)   nesting sites for raising offspring
D)   protection from predatorsE) A) and C)
F) All of the above A

Question 10

The sensitive period is most closely associated with

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A)   imprinting.
B)   operant conditioning.
C)   insight learning.
D)   extinction.
E)   motivation.F) A) and D)
G) A) and E)

Question 11

Primate grooming and honeybee waggle dancing share which of these forms of communication?

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A)   chemical communication
B)   auditory communication
C)   tactile communication
D)   visual communication
E)   physical communicationF) A) and D)
G) C) and D)

Question 12

Which of the following supports a genetic basis of behavior?

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A)   Two brothers raised in the same household who like the same type of ice cream.
B)   Identical twins that are raised in two separate families and grow up to smoke the same brand of cigarettes.
C)   A sister and a brother who are raised in the same household and say things in the same way.
D)   Two unrelated individuals who are raised in the same household and have the same taste in clothing.
E)   Cousins who grow up in the same family prefer the same foods.F) A) and E)
G) C) and D) B

Question 13

Salmon fish hatcheries add a harmless perfume (morpholine) to a stream when they release young fish.When the fish mature,they attract them back to the home stream by using this chemical (in nature the fish smell the unique odors of soil and trees along the home stream) .In effect,the hatchery biologist is using

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A)   the fish's inborn instincts to relocate its own stream.
B)   a fish's higher order reasoning.
C)   an experiment based on the ability of fish to learn by trial and error.
D)   chemotropisms.
E)   imprinting.F) C) and D)
G) A) and E)

Question 14

The discovery of a gene in Aplysia slugs that results in protein products including egg-laying hormone is evidence that

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A)   the egg-laying behavior is innate or hardwired into the slugs' brain.
B)   the egg-laying behavior has absolutely no nervous system involvement.
C)   genes can control endocrine gland secretions that can control behavior.
D)   this slug could avoid being eaten by garter snakes.
E)   genes only influence physiology and structure but not behavior.F) C) and D)
G) All of the above

Question 15

Which of the following statements is NOT true about fixed action patterns (FAPs) ?

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A)   All the members of a species perform the exact same sequence of behaviors.
B)   The behavior pattern is stereotyped.
C)   Many behaviors thought to be fixed action patterns have been shown to develop after practice.
D)   The fixed action pattern was considered to be initiated by a sign stimulus.
E)   FAPs are strictly the result of the expression of particular genes.F) A) and E)
G) C) and E)

Question 16

Imprinting and songbird singing are both examples of

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A)   altruism.
B)   innate but not learned behavior.
C)   a type of courtship ritual.
D)   behavior that requires some learning.
E)   kin selection.F) B) and E)
G) None of the above

Question 17

A very rapid kind of communication that works even at a distance and in the dark is

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A)   chemical communication.
B)   auditory communication.
C)   tactile communication.
D)   visual communication.
E)   pheromones.F) B) and E)
G) B) and D)

Question 18

The competitive behavior among red deer stags competing to be harem master is advantageous because

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A)   the survivor of the competition is the stag that lives the longest, longer than the females.
B)   the survivor is the most altruistic and caring.
C)   the increased number of offspring produced will offset the shorter life of the harem master.
D)   the best DNA genome is directing the best animal to be superior in combat.
E)   once the top stag wins, females ensure he will remain harem master for his lifetime.F) A) and D)
G) A) and C)

Question 19

Altruistic behaviors between closely related animals are selected for because they

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A)   reduce fighting between species.
B)   ensure the survival of the altruistic individual.
C)   increase the frequency of the altruistic individual's genes in the next generation.
D)   force individuals to cooperate with one another and thereby increase mating and population growth.
E)   stimulate new learning behaviors.F) C) and E)
G) A) and B) C

Question 20

In gibbon society which parent invests more energy into the success of the young?

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A)   Both parents are equally involved in the success of the young.
B)   The female invests more energy into the success of the young.
C)   The male invests more energy into the success of the young.
D)   Neither parent invest in the success of the young.
E)   Initially the female invests in the success of the young but the male takes over and ensures the success of the young.F) A) and B)
G) B) and E)

Exam 33: Behavioral Ecology

While walking along a trail in the woods you notice that your dog walks over to a tree and urinates on the base of the largest tree on the trail.Your dog's behavior is an example of

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Which of the following experiments would help support the idea that behavior can be influenced by the environment?

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An example of territoriality is

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Learning that is reinforced by rewards,a gradual strengthening of stimulus-response connections,is called

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Some fish give off a chemical when injured that signals to other fish that a predator is nearby.The chemical causes the uninjured fish to group together in a tight formation,move to the bottom of the water and cease movement to make it less likely that they will be preyed upon.

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The main result of the experiments with two groups of California garter snakes that varied in habitat and food was

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What is a change in behavior that involves associating two separate events?

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Which of the following is a negative consequence of having a territory?

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Primate grooming and honeybee waggle dancing share which of these forms of communication?

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Which of the following statements is NOT true about fixed action patterns (FAPs) ?

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Imprinting and songbird singing are both examples of

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