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CLEP Biology: Principles Of Behavior
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Answer 34 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. _________ may decrease reproductive success while benefiting reproductive success of another member of group.
Altruism
Behavior
Operant conditioning
Drone
2. Females who produce few eggs are selective about their mates; this is called Sexual ____________.
Learning.
Selection
Fixed Action
Identical
3. Behavior has ___________ basis and can evolve. Behavior evolves to adapt an individual to reproduce; also to capture resources and avoid predators.
Laughing Gull
Genetic
Society
Altruism
4. ______________ to living in a social group might include help to avoid predators - raise young - and find food.
Laughing Gull
Advantages
Run-away
Operant conditioning
5. 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.
Sensorimotor
Learning.
Drone
Echolocation.
6. _______________ is an application of evolutionary biology principles to the social behavior in animals.
Harem
Altruism
Pheromone
Sociobiology
7. ___________ 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.
Concrete
Echolocation.
Language
Auditory
8. __________ ______ chicks beg food from parents by pecking at parents' beaks; their accuracy improves with practice.
Bird
Behavior
Society
Laughing Gull
9. _____________ is the ultimate auditory communication. Nonhuman primates are limited to about 40 distinct vocalizations with limited meaning.
Fixed Action
Learning.
Echolocation.
Language
10. Females mate with dominant males when ______________ is near; dominant males protect all young.
Society
Tactile
Ovulation
Solitary
11. Baboons have a _______________ hierarchy. It is a ranking within a group where higher ranking individuals acquire more resources.
Fixed Action
Tactile
Dominance
Communication signals
12. ______________ is a durable change in behavior brought about by experience.
Sensorimotor
Society
Learning.
Advantages
13. _______________ is an action by a sender that influences the behavior of a receiver.
Language
Communication signals
Communication
Laughing Gull
14. The ______-______ hypothesis states that females chose mates on basis of traits that attract them to females.
Run-away
Echolocation.
Concrete
Waggle
15. Stags compete for females to form a _____________--a group that mates only with him.
Run-away
Behavior
Harem
Solitary
16. _______________ involves marking or defending a particular area against competitors.
Territoriality
Sociobiology
Behavior
Language
17. _________________ - 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.
Imprinting
Advantages
Sensorimotor
Territoriality
18. Fraternal twins in same family are often different; __________ twins reared apart are often similar.
Identical
Waggle
Echolocation.
Drone
19. 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
Advantages
Tactile
Drone
Pheromone
20. ___________ communication occurs when one animal touches another.
Imprinting
Bird
Waggle
Tactile
21. 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.
Advantages
Greater
Drone
Pheromone
22. __________ is an observable coordinated response to environmental stimuli. Mechanistic questions are answered by describing how an animal is biologically equipped to behave.
Disadvantages
Greater
Pheromone
Behavior
23. _________________ 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.
Sociobiology
Greater
Communication signals
Communication
24. In humans - Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget assigned four stages to child development. First - the ____________ stage (first two years) involves nonverbal hands-on learning.
Advantages
Sensorimotor
Communication signals
Selection
25. 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.
Tactile
Concrete
Drone
Altruism
26. Migratory __________ that are caged and prevented from migrating exhibit migratory restlessness.
Echolocation.
Disadvantages
Identical
Bird
27. ______________ to living in a social group include tension between members - spread of illness and parasites - and reduced reproductive potential.
Learning.
Disadvantages
Solitary
Waggle
28. Some animals are largely ____________ and join with a member of the opposite sex only to reproduce.
Greater
Selection
Solitary
Language
29. ___________________ involves reinforcing a particular behavior to strengthen the relationship between a stimulus and a response.
Dominance
Sensorimotor
Altruism
Operant conditioning
30. ______________ rituals prepare sexes for mating; they allow recognition and help a female choose a mate.
Courtship
Identical
Dominance
Genetic
31. _________ _______ Patterns (FAPs) are always performed the same way and are elicited by a sign stimulus.
Fixed Action
Concrete
Identical
Selection
32. A ___________ is a chemical released to cause a predictable reaction of another member of the species.
Pheromone
Disadvantages
Communication signals
Greater
33. 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.
Waggle
Advantages
Bird
Auditory
34. ___________ members are organized in a cooperative manner extending beyond sexual or parental behavior.
Advantages
Language
Society
Sensorimotor