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CLEP Biology: Principles Of Behavior
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Answer 34 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. ___________ communication occurs when one animal touches another.
Tactile
Society
Sociobiology
Courtship
2. _______________ is an application of evolutionary biology principles to the social behavior in animals.
Sociobiology
Echolocation.
Ovulation
Harem
3. Fraternal twins in same family are often different; __________ twins reared apart are often similar.
Language
Identical
Auditory
Laughing Gull
4. _______________ is an action by a sender that influences the behavior of a receiver.
Communication
Solitary
Language
Run-away
5. _________ _______ Patterns (FAPs) are always performed the same way and are elicited by a sign stimulus.
Drone
Dominance
Fixed Action
Communication signals
6. Females who produce few eggs are selective about their mates; this is called Sexual ____________.
Drone
Pheromone
Ovulation
Selection
7. Migratory __________ that are caged and prevented from migrating exhibit migratory restlessness.
Sensorimotor
Drone
Bird
Courtship
8. __________ ______ chicks beg food from parents by pecking at parents' beaks; their accuracy improves with practice.
Operant conditioning
Laughing Gull
Imprinting
Territoriality
9. Continuous human female sexual receptivity may help ensure that the male remains to care for its young. It is noted that tribal systems of more than one husband or wife provide for ___________ survival and success of genes.
Behavior
Greater
Altruism
Auditory
10. _______________ involves marking or defending a particular area against competitors.
Advantages
Territoriality
Laughing Gull
Disadvantages
11. Baboons have a _______________ hierarchy. It is a ranking within a group where higher ranking individuals acquire more resources.
Fixed Action
Dominance
Concrete
Society
12. _________________ - another form of learning - involves a sensitive period. A famous example of this is where a scientist imitated a mother duck's quacking in front of a group of ducklings just after they had hatched.
Greater
Bird
Imprinting
Language
13. Honeybees combine tactile and auditory signals to indicate direction of a food source. A bee that has located a good source of pollen returns to the hive and conducts a __________ dance.
Auditory
Waggle
Advantages
Identical
14. In humans - Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget assigned four stages to child development. First - the ____________ stage (first two years) involves nonverbal hands-on learning.
Sensorimotor
Communication signals
Language
Harem
15. Stags compete for females to form a _____________--a group that mates only with him.
Harem
Operant conditioning
Learning.
Dominance
16. ___________ communication (sounds) have advantages. It is faster than chemical communication. And - it is effective both night and day. For example - whale songs have six basic themes for sexual and group identification.
Advantages
Greater
Bird
Auditory
17. In social bees and wasps - the queen is diploid but the _________ is haploid; they are 75 percent related to their nest mates but only 50 percent related to their own offspring if they reproduced; thus - it is an advantage to care for the queen and h
Fixed Action
Drone
Pheromone
Sensorimotor
18. _________________ may be chemicals (e.g. - pheromones - urine - and feces). Moths attract males with tail gland pheromones; cats mark territory with urine - etc. and antelope mark with eye gland secretions.
Tactile
Imprinting
Concrete
Communication signals
19. The third stage of Piaget's Cognitive Theory of Development is the __________ stage - in which the child develops organized - logical thought - and the ability to classify objects.
Learning.
Communication
Concrete
Behavior
20. ___________ members are organized in a cooperative manner extending beyond sexual or parental behavior.
Auditory
Solitary
Language
Society
21. Females mate with dominant males when ______________ is near; dominant males protect all young.
Ovulation
Sensorimotor
Solitary
Operant conditioning
22. ______________ to living in a social group might include help to avoid predators - raise young - and find food.
Bird
Advantages
Sensorimotor
Communication
23. ______________ rituals prepare sexes for mating; they allow recognition and help a female choose a mate.
Courtship
Echolocation.
Society
Laughing Gull
24. ___________________ involves reinforcing a particular behavior to strengthen the relationship between a stimulus and a response.
Courtship
Greater
Dominance
Operant conditioning
25. ______________ is a durable change in behavior brought about by experience.
Echolocation.
Learning.
Behavior
Solitary
26. ______________ to living in a social group include tension between members - spread of illness and parasites - and reduced reproductive potential.
Ovulation
Bird
Concrete
Disadvantages
27. Certain animals - such as bats and dolphins - have a sensory system called _____________ - in which high-pitched sounds are emitted and their echoes interpreted to determine the direction and distance of objects.
Learning.
Territoriality
Echolocation.
Advantages
28. A ___________ is a chemical released to cause a predictable reaction of another member of the species.
Society
Operant conditioning
Waggle
Pheromone
29. The ______-______ hypothesis states that females chose mates on basis of traits that attract them to females.
Territoriality
Run-away
Behavior
Selection
30. __________ is an observable coordinated response to environmental stimuli. Mechanistic questions are answered by describing how an animal is biologically equipped to behave.
Concrete
Selection
Behavior
Dominance
31. Some animals are largely ____________ and join with a member of the opposite sex only to reproduce.
Communication signals
Solitary
Concrete
Greater
32. _________ may decrease reproductive success while benefiting reproductive success of another member of group.
Disadvantages
Greater
Altruism
Language
33. Behavior has ___________ basis and can evolve. Behavior evolves to adapt an individual to reproduce; also to capture resources and avoid predators.
Bird
Genetic
Selection
Identical
34. _____________ is the ultimate auditory communication. Nonhuman primates are limited to about 40 distinct vocalizations with limited meaning.
Advantages
Language
Greater
Territoriality