Study Set IV

Question 1

Why would a capuchin monkey need to resort to bluffing?

Answer 1

Lower-ranked monkeys risk losing food to older, higher-ranked monkeys often. By bluffing, they can distract those monkeys long enough to retrieve the food they found

Question 2

What does deception imply about what animals think about

Answer 2

Animals imagine things that are not and they are beginning to think about what each other may be thinking about

Question 3

What is the “bluff” in this video clip’s title?

Answer 3

Clever monkeys being duped by false alarm signals

Question 4

One of the testable things that circadian rhythms depend on is …

Answer 4

light

Question 5

When animals are kept in an environment where the lighting never changes, their behavior ends up cycling very close to every …

Answer 5

24 hours

Question 6

What does entrain mean

Answer 6

To determine or modify the phase or period of

Question 7

What does endogenous mean

Answer 7

Originating or produced within an organism, tissue, or cell

Question 8

A hummingbird experiment, the experimenter filled fake flowers with nectar every 10 minutes. At what time intervals did the hummingbirds come back to the flowers?

Answer 8

A little over every ten-minutes

Question 9

A hummingbird experiment, the experimenter filled fake flowers with nectar every 10 minutes. What outside influence affected the timing?

Answer 9

Whether other hummingbirds had access to that same flower

Question 10

If you train an animal to push a lever to get food, and then dispense it at a fixed interval,
when will the animal start pressing the lever to get the food?

Answer 10

1/3rd of the feeding interval has lapsed