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5 Written questions

1. A behavior that causes a change in behavior in another animal

2. Animal behavior involving transmission of, reception of, and response to signals.

3. a type of relationship in which an individual of one sex mates with several of the other

4. The principle that for natural selection to favor an altruistic act, the benefit to the recipient, devalued by the coefficient of
relatedness, must exceed the cost to the altruist.

5. An organism's decreasing response to a stimulus with repeated exposure to it

5 Matching questions

1. inclusive fitness A. The total effect an individual has on proliferating its genes by
producing its own offspring and by providing aid that enables
other close relatives to increase the production of their
2. polyandry
offspring.

3. innate behavior
B. Behavior performed correctly and in the same way by all
individuals of a species, without previous experience (basis in
4. coefficient of relatedness
genetics)

5. reciprocal altruism
C. Altruistic behavior between unrelated individuals, whereby the
current altruistic individual benefits in the future when the
current beneficiary reciprocates.

D. The probability that a particular gene present in one individual

will also be inherited from a common parent or ancestor in a
second individual.

E. A polygamous mating system involving one female and many

males.

5 Multiple choice questions

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1. Modification of behavior through the observation of other individuals

A. learning

B. social learning

C. spatial learning

D. foraging

2. A type of relationship in which mating occurs with no strong pair-bonds or lasting relationships.

A. pheromone

B. polygamous

C. promiscuous

D. polyandry

3. In animal behavior, an inquiry that focuses on the environmental stimuli, if any, that trigger a particular behavioral act, as well as the
genetic, physiological, and anatomical mechanisms underlying it.

A. monogamous

B. ultimate question

C. polygamous

D. proximate question

4. In animal behavior, an inquiry that focuses on the evolutionary significance of a behavioral act.

A. optimal foraging theory

B. ultimate question

C. game theory

D. proximate question

5. the act of searching for food and provisions

A. taxis

B. learning

C. behavior

D. foraging

5 True/False questions

1. All the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating. cognition

True

False

2. Learning that certain events occur together. The events may be two stimuli (as in classical conditioning) or a response and its
consequences (as in operant conditioning).associative learning

True

False

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3. The study of animal behavior in natural conditionslearning

True

False

4. A limited phase in an individual animal's development when learning of particular behaviors can take place. cognitive ethology

True

False

5. A phenomenon of inclusive fitness, used to explain altruistic behavior between related individuals.kinesis

True

False

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