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GRE Psychology: Physiological/behavioral Neuroscience 2
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1. Pigeons sensitive to pressure changes in altitude as navigational cue
Atmospheric pressure
Polarized light
Contact comfort from rhesus monkeys
Navigation of animals
2. How particular genotypes selected out or eliminated from a population over time
Stickleback fish
Ethology
Genetic drift
Fight or flight
3. present in all normal members of a species - - stereotypic in form throughout members even for the first time - independent of learning or experience
Navigation of animals
Alleles
Stickleback fish
Instinctual/innate behaviours
4. The total of all genetic material that an offspring received (23 pairs or 46 total chromosomes) - an individual'S complete genetic make up - include both dominant and recessive genes
geographic isolation
genotype
Infrasound
homeostasis
5. Basic unit of heredity - made of DNA molecules - organized in chromosomes - Human nucleus cells contains 23 pairs of chromosomes. Chromosomes in cells act as carriers for genes - and therefore for heredity
Releasing stimuli
Genes
Mimicry
Echolocation
6. Tinbergen - males develop red coloration on belly - which is the releasing stimulus for attacks; males attacked red-bellied crude models rather than the detailed but non-red models
Walter Cannon
Round dance
Stickleback fish
Atmospheric pressure
7. Worked with chimpanzees and insight in problem solving - chimps could perceive the whole situation to create new solutions rather than by trial and error; chimps had to use tools or create props to retrieve rewards
Hearing of owls
Wolfgang Kohler
Star compass
Herring gull chicks
8. Atmospheric pressure - infrasound - magnetic sense - sun compass - star compass - polarized light
Navigation of animals
Navigation cues
Zygote
Animal aggression
9. The internal regulation of body to main equilibrium (decrease in HR after the perceived threat is no longer present)
homeostasis
Navigation of animals
Genetic drift
Navigation cues
10. Made the concept of evolution scientifically plausible by asserting that natural selection was at its core
Charles Darwin
Natural selection
Releasing stimuli
Stickleback fish
11. Harlow - monkeys became better at learning tasks as they acquired different learning experiences - eventually learned after only one trial
Pheromones
Edward Thorndike
Learning to learn from rhesus monkeys
Star compass
12. Dance of the honeybees - and also studied senses of fish
Karl von Frisch
Echolocation
Inclusive fitness
Displacement activities/irrelevant behaviours
13. dominant gene always beat out recessive gene - recessive gene is not manifested unless it is paired with another recessive gene - combination of dominant and recessive genes determines what he/she looks like
Echolocation
Edward Thorndike
Dominant and recessive gene
Fitness
14. The internal physiological changes that occur in an organism in response to a perceived threat (increase in HR or respiration)
Instrumental learning
Cross fostering experiments
Fight or flight
Wolfgang Kohler
15. Only the fit survive - at the heart of evolution- it explains the evolution or genetic development of various species over time and explains the concept of genetic drift - favors inclusive fitness over individual fitness
Eric Kandel
Displacement activities/irrelevant behaviours
Natural selection
Echolocation
16. Evolved form of deception - ex: harmless snakes may mimic coloration and pattern of more poisonous ones to escape predation
Zygote
Mimicry
Phenotype
Releasing stimuli
17. Behaviours that precede sexual acts that lead to reproduction - to attract and isolate a mate
Eric Kandel
Altruism
Sexual selection
Courting
18. Chemicals detected by vomeronasal organ - acts as messengers between animals - primitive form of communication - can transmit states such as fear or sexual receptiveness
Phenotype
Instinctual drift (example)
R. C. Tyron
Pheromones
19. coined 'fight or flight' - proposed idea homeostasis
Inbreeding
Mimicry
homeostasis
Walter Cannon
20. Pigeons and bees have magnetic sensitivity - allows them to use earth`s magnetic forces as navigational cue
R. C. Tyron
mechanical isolation
Sexual selection
Magnetic sense
21. Breeding within same family - evolutionary controls prevent this (e.g. swan facial markings of same family)
Herring gull chicks
Inbreeding
Ethology
Hierarchy of bees
22. Lorenz - certain species (often birds) young attach to first moving object they see - displayed by a 'following response' - subjective to sensitive learning period - after that period this would not occur
Imprinting
Eric Kandel
Polarized light
Inbreeding
23. Reproductive isolating mechanism - courtship or display behavior of a particular species allows an individual to identify a mate within its own species
geographic isolation
Sensitive or critical periods
Reproductive isolating mechanisms (+types)
behavioral isolation
24. Period in which a female is sexually receptive (usually used to describe non-human mammals)
Estrus
Gamete
homeostasis
Stickleback fish
25. Closely related to ethology - different species are compared in order to learn about their similarities and differences. Draw from animal studies to gain insight into human functioning
Zygote
Imprinting
Comparative psychology
Magnetic sense
26. Fertilized egg cell - two separate sets of 23 chromosomes (from each parent) come together for 23 pairs - diploid
Edward Thorndike
Waggle dance
Herring gull chicks
Zygote
27. Birds - many birds can use star patterns and movements as navigational cue
Star compass
Circadian rhythms
Cross fostering experiments
Stickleback fish
28. Tinbergen - peck at end of parents' bills which have a red spot on the tip - parents then regurgitates food for chicks; chicks pecked more at a red-tipped model bill than at a plain model bill; the greater the contrast between bill and red spot even
Hierarchy of bees
Herring gull chicks
Hearing of owls
Navigation of animals
29. When animal replaces a trained or forced response with a natural or instinctive response Ex: a dog with the nature to bark at visitors thinking they are intruders might have been taught to sit quietly when a guest enters through reward and punishment
geographic isolation
Instinctual drift (example)
Waggle dance
Inclusive fitness
30. Only one queen bee - which produces a chemical that suppresses ovaries in all other female bees - constantly tended to and fed - lays thousands of eggs in the spring; when eggs mature - scouts finds new site for old queen and her workers - a new quee
Altruism
Hierarchy of bees
Charles Darwin
Navigation of animals
31. Form of natural selection - not the fittest that win but those with greatest chance of being chosen as a mate (best fighters - most attractive - etc)
Natural selection
Releasing stimuli
Sexual selection
Pheromones
32. Researched development with rhesus monkeys in terms of social isolation - maternal stimulation - contact comfort - and learning to learn
homeostasis
Animal aggression
Mating of bees
Harry Harlow
33. Bees dance to indicate food is far away
Imprinting
Sexual dimorphism
Gamete
Waggle dance
34. Structural differences between sexes - arisen through both natural and sexual selections
Selective breeding
Atmospheric pressure
Flower selection of bees
Sexual dimorphism
35. Contrived breeding - mates intentionally paired to increase chances of producing offspring with particular traits
Selective breeding
Karl von Frisch
Estrus
Nikolaas Tinbergen
36. Founder of ethology - imprinting - animal aggression - releasing stimuli - fixed action patterns
Phenotype
mechanical isolation
Wolfgang Kohler
Konrad Lorenz
37. Behaviour that solely benefits another - imilar to group mentality - will help if benefit outweighs cost or expect to be repaid
Altruism
Fight or flight
Animal aggression
Social isolation from rhesus monkeys
38. Most sophisticated type of perception - generally replaces sight - marine mammals (dolphin) and bats - - emit high-frequency sounds and locate nearby objects from the echo; bats can fly through grids of thin nylon strings and can locate and eat small
Inbreeding
Echolocation
Flower selection of bees
Animal aggression
39. Made up of external characteristics (eye color - size - etc)
Hearing of owls
Phenotype
Communication of bees
Flower selection of bees
40. Reproductive isolating mechanism - different species breed in different areas to prevent confusion or genetic mixing
Waggle dance
Altruism
geographic isolation
Fight or flight
41. Ability to reproduce and pass on genes
Polarized light
Fitness
Charles Darwin
R.M. Cooper and John Zubek
42. Lorenz - triggered by releasing stimuli - automatic and innate - instinctual - complex chains of behaviour; four defining characteristics: 1) uniform patterns - 2) performed by most members - 3) more complex than simple reflexes - 4) cannot be interr
Learning to learn from rhesus monkeys
Infrasound
Fixed action patterns (example)
Animal aggression
43. The pair up of possible dominant and recessive gene variations for each characteristic
Charles Darwin
Alleles
Dominant and recessive gene
Communication of bees
44. Pigeons and bees can compensate for daily solar movements for navigational cue
Fight or flight
Sun compass
Genetic drift
Zygote
45. Harlow - study of attachment. mother-infant attachment - -infants attach to mothers through comforting experience rather than through feeding - infants placed with two surrogate mothers (wire with feeding bottle - and terrycloth with no bottle); infa
Navigation of bees
Contact comfort from rhesus monkeys
Supernormal sign stimulus
Charles Darwin
46. Very few drones (male bees) produced - only for mating with queen - same mating areas used year after year even though no bee survives from one year to the next - unknown how they know to gather there
Mating of bees
Charles Darwin
Communication of bees
Atmospheric pressure
47. Demonstrated the interaction between heredity and environment - bright rats performed better than dull only when both sets raised in normal conditions - both groups performed well in enriched environment (lots of food and activities) - both performed
Harry Harlow
Nikolaas Tinbergen
R.M. Cooper and John Zubek
geographic isolation
48. Von Frisch - once a scouting bee locates a promising food source - returns to hive and conveys the location through movements; round or waggle dance - the longer the dance the farther the food - the more vigorous display the better food; performed on
Charles Darwin
Eric Kandel
Mating of bees
Communication of bees
49. Tinbergen - artificial stimuli that exaggerate naturally occurring sign stimulus or releaser - more effective than natural
geographic isolation
behavioral isolation
R.M. Cooper and John Zubek
Supernormal sign stimulus
50. Reproductive isolating mechanism - potentially compatible species mate during different seasons
Walter Cannon
Inclusive fitness
isolation by season
Reproductive isolating mechanisms (+types)