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