Chapt1

Question 1

variation and natural selection are the foundations of …

Answer 1

evolution

Question 2

Darwin’s theory of evolution has been around for about …

Answer 2

150 years

Question 3

chapter 1 includes a box called the face of Change. one point the essay makes is that…

Answer 3

many changes in our lives are imperceptible

Question 4

the role of Natural Selection in the beaks of finches was the subject of research by…

Answer 4

Peter and Rosemary Grant

Question 5

the gollypod, a fictitious aquatic animal, breaks out in a cold sweat whenever exposed to the sun. This reaction is most likely…

Answer 5

a reflex

Question 6

the tendency of some animals to hoard food is probably an example of…

Answer 6

a general behaviour trait

Question 7

the quotation “change is the only constant” is attributed to…

Answer 7

Lucretius

Question 8

modal action patterns are induced by events called….

Answer 8

releasers

Question 9

the chief advantage of learning over natural selection as a means of adapting to change is that learning…

Answer 9

is faster

Question 10

the phenomenon that is nearly the opposite of habituation is…

Answer 10

sensitization

Question 11

the person who demonstrated that the marching of tropical army Ants is not intelligent behaviour is…

Answer 11

Schneirla

Question 12

the list of alleged human fixed action patterns…

Answer 12

has gotten shorter in recent years

Question 13

one person who raised doubts about incest taboo is…

Answer 13

freud

Question 14

in her study of baboons, Shirley Strum found that the most successful males were…

Answer 14

less aggressive than other males

Question 15

the brown headed cowbird deposits its eggs in the nests of other birds. this is most likely a…

Answer 15

modal action pattern

Question 16

learning is an evolved…

Answer 16

modifiability

Question 17

according to David Buss, the work of Gregor Mendel…

Answer 17

had little or no influence to Darwin’s thinking

Question 18

behaviour is anything an animal or person does that can be…

Answer 18

Measured

Question 19

natural selection is illustrated by changes in the colouration of the peppered moth resulting from…

Answer 19

industrial pollution

Question 20

most mutations…

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are not helpful to survival

Question 21

Keltner and Anderson suggest that …. may protect us from injury by appeasing others we have offended

Answer 21

blushing

Question 22

a reflex is…

Answer 22

a relationship between an event and a simple response

Question 23

there is evidence that the rate of… in foetuses is correlated with intellectual development after birth

Answer 23

habituation

Question 24

the rooting of pigs (for worms, larvae & truffles) is an example of a

Answer 24

MAP

Question 25

the colour ... is a releaser for aggression in the male stickleback

Answer 25

red

Question 26

learning is...

Answer 26

a change in behaviour

Question 27

experience refers to...

Answer 27

events that affect behaviour

Question 28

an ... is something an organism tries to escape or avoid

Answer 28

aversive

Question 29

in the fox breeding experiment, researchers selectively mated foxes that displayed...

Answer 29

dog-like behaviour

Question 30

Lee Cronk wrote an article on how evolved behaviour can prove non-adaptive when the environment changes. The article was called...

Answer 30

Old dogs, old tricks

Question 31

... poked fun at the human tendency to see itself as the crowning achievement of evolution

Answer 31

Bertrand Russell

Question 32

... refers to modal action patterns as complex reflexes

Answer 32

Howard Rachlin

Question 33

Steven says that he was very nervous when he first attended college classes, but now he feels quite relaxed. Stevens loss of anxiety is most likely an example of...

Answer 33

learning

Question 34

natural selection helps the individual adapt to changes in its environment

Answer 34

false

Question 35

reflexes are generally less variable than modal action patterns

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true

Question 36

all reflexes contribute to survival

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false

Question 37

Darwin believe that there were no human instincts

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false

Question 38

a major problem with natural selection as an adaptive mechanism is that it is slow

Answer 38

True

Question 39

research on the sexual orientation of sisters of lesbian women demonstrated that homosexuality is an inherited characteristic

Answer 39

false

Question 40

natural selection helps the species to adapt to change, not the individual

Answer 40

true

Question 41

your text views learning as a change in the brain that is represented in behaviour

Answer 41

false

Question 42

learning always involves the acquisition of new behaviours

Answer 42

false

Question 43

it is sometimes difficult to say whether an event is behaviour or physiology

Answer 43

true

Question 44

the word stimulus always refers to events in an organisms surroundings

Answer 44

false

Question 45

Darwin founded his theory of evolution on the work of Gregor Mendel

Answer 45

False

Question 46

repeated exposure to a stimulus that evokes a reflex response results in...

Answer 46

habituation