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