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1
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Any internally coordinated, externally visible pattern of activity that responds to changing external or internal conditions are called?
a) Proximate
b) Cognitive Ethology
c) Anthropomorphism
d) Animal Behavior

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Animal behavior

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A formal description of an animals behavior, and method to systematically study animal behavior is called?
a) Ethogram
b) Causation
c) Proximate
d) Hypothesis

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Ethogram

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the TOTAL TIME and relative frequency of different behaviors performed by an individual is called?
a) Proximate
b) Cognitive Ethology
c) Time budget
d) Ultimate behavior

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Time budget

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What generates testable predictions
a) Correlation
b) Causation
c) Proximate
d) Hypothesis

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Hypothesis

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Positive correlation vs negative correlation (Need to see image)

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Variables vary together predictably is…
a) Correlation
b) Causation
c) Proximate
d) Hypothesis

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Correlation

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One variable causes the other
a) Correlation
b) Causation
c) Proximate
d) Hypothesis

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causation
-correlation doesn’t equal causation

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An explanation based on assumptions, testable predictions are called?
a) Proximate
b) Scientific theory
c) Research hypothesis
d) Ultimate behavior

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Research hypothesis

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An hypothesis the makes predictions, has been tested over and over, has not been rejected is called?
a) Proximate
b) Scientific theory
c) Anthropomorphism
d) Ultimate behavior

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Scientific theory

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Who developed the 4 major behavioral questions and the pioneer of ethology?
a) Loyd Morgan
b) Nikolaas Tinergen
c) Charles Darwin
d) George romans

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Nikolaas Tinergen

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What are the 4 behavioral questions?

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1) What is the mechanism
2) Development
3) Functionality
4) Evolutionary history

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What is this considered Immediate stimuli causing the behavior (chemical hormonal neurobiological) this is the?
a) Mechanism
b) Development
c) Functionality
d) Evolutionary history

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Mechanism (proximate behavior)

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What is this considered: How does the behavior change as it grows? How does the animal use sensory and motor abilities to activate and modify behavior patterns?
a) Mechanism
b) Development
c) Functionality
d) Evolutionary history

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Development

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What is this considered:
How does this behavior affect survival and reproduction?
-Tradeoffs between survival and reproductive success?
a) Mechanism
b) Development
c) Functionality
d) Evolutionary history

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Functionality (ultimate)

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What is this considered:
How does the behavior reflect evolutionary history of the animal?
-Compare to another closely related species?
-How did the behavior originate, and how has it changed over evolutionary time?
a) Proximate
b) Cognitive Ethology
c) Anthropomorphism
d) Ultimate behavior

A

Ultimate behavior

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Occur during the lifetime of an animal (immediate/short term)This is an example of what?
a) Proximate
b) Cognitive Ethology
c) Anthropomorphism
d) Ultimate behavior

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Proximate behavior

17
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Occur over the long-term EVOLUTION of the species (not individual) this is what type of behavior?
a) Proximate
b) Cognitive Ethology
c) Anthropomorphism
d) Ultimate behavior

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Ultimate behavior

18
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Belding ground squirrels males leave natal burrow. Increase in testosterone / hormonal this is what type of behavior?
a) Proximate
b) Cognitive Ethology
c) Anthropomorphism
d) Ultimate behavior

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Proximate

19
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Males leave natal burrow to AVIOD INBREEDING
-offspring become healthier
-male genetics information causing dispersal
-behavior passed on genetically
What type of behavior is this?
a) Behaviorism
b) Cognitive Ethology
c) Anthropomorphism
d) Ultimate behavior

A

Ultimate behavior

20
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Who developed the study of adaptions using evolutionary reasoning?
a) Loyd Morgan
b)Pavlov watson and skinner
c) Charles Darwin
d) George romans

A

Charles Darwin

21
Q

Behavior neither learned nor requiring experience
- Interspecific brood parasitism is an example of what?
a) Behaviorism
b) Cognitive Ethology
c) Evolution of instincts
d) Comparative psychology

A

Evolution of instincts

(Evo stinks a brood that is a parasite)

22
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Studies animal behavior, often across species, in order to understand human minds is called?
a) Behaviorism
b) Cognitive Ethology
c) Anthropomorphism
d) Comparative psychology

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Comparative psychology

23
Q

Who examined animal consciousness?
a) Loyd Morgan
b)Pavlov watson and skinner
c) Margaret Floy Washburne
d) George romans

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George romans

(romans are cons)

24
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Who developed the simplest psychological process possible should be used to interpret an animals behavior?
a) Loyd Morgan
b)Pavlov watson and skinner
c) Margaret Floy Washburne
d) E.L. Thorndlike

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Loyd Morgan

(morgan interpret)
or
(ppp look at question)

25
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Who used standardized methodology and experimental method?
Example) puzzle box
a) Lorenz; Timbergen; Vonfrisch
b)Pavlov watson and skinner
c) Margaret Floy Washburne
d) E.L. Thorndlike

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E.L. Thorndlike

(dike like meth and stand)

26
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Who researched on motor theory of consciousness and is the author of groundbreaking textbook on experimental methods in comparative psychology?
a) Lorenz; Timbergen; Vonfrisch
b)Pavlov watson and skinner
c) Margaret Floy Washburne
d) E.L. Thorndlike

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Margaret Floy Washburne

(wash motor)

27
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What is the study of learned behaviors that can be controlled and predicted by environmental stimuli?
a) Behaviorism
b) Cognitive Ethology
c) Anthropomorphism
d) Evolutionary psychology

A

Behaviorism (environmental stimuli)

28
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who developed the study of learned behaviors that can be controlled and predicted by environmental stimuli?
a) Lorenz; Timbergen; Vonfrisch
b)Pavlov watson and skinner
c) Margaret Floy Washburne
d) E.L. Thorndlike

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Pavlov watson and skinner

(pav love skinner women to controol and dick(predict) them down and stimulate(stimuli) this is a learned behavior)

29
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Who developed the study of how animals learn to adapt to their natural environment and solve problems (infield and natural conditions in lab)?
a) Lorenz; Timbergen; Vonfrisch
b)Pavlov watson and skinner
c) Margaret Floy Washburne
d) E.L. Thorndlike

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Lorenz; Timbergen; Vonfrisch

30
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What is the study of how animals learn to adapt to their natural environment and solve problems (infield and natural conditions in lab)?
a) Behavioral Ecology
b) Ethology
c) Anthropomorphism
d) Evolutionary psychology

A

Ethology

31
Q

What is the understanding of human thinking and behavior, by natural selection shaped brain architecture/ thought processes adaptively?
a) Behavioral Ecology
b) Cognitive Ethology
c) Anthropomorphism
d) Evolutionary psychology

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Evolutionary psychology

(Architecture) or (adaptively)

32
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What is the study of how NATURAL SELECTION ACTS ON MENTAL PROCESSES AND COGNITION in animals?
a) Behavioral Ecology
b) Cognitive Ethology
c) Anthropomorphism
d) Evolutionary psychology

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Cognitive (mental) ethology

33
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What is the study that focuses on ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION OF BEHAVIOR and fitness consequences?
a) Behavioral Ecology
b) Cognitive Ethology
c) Anthropomorphism
d) Evolutionary psychology

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Behavioral Ecology

34
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Attributing human motivations, characteristics, or emotions to animals is called
a) Behavioral Ecology
b) Cognitive Ethology
c) Anthropomorphism
d) Evolutionary psychology

A

Anthropomorphism

35
Q

Guilty look in dogs are an example of what?
a) Behavioral Ecology
b) Cognitive Ethology
c) Anthropomorphism
d) Evolutionary psychology

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Anthropomorphism

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