Animal Behavior Overview Quiz

Any internally coordinated, externally visible pattern of activity that responds to changing external/internal conditions.

When two male giraffes meet during breeding season and exhibit aggressive behavior.

A squirrel eating an acorn.

<p>A desert lizard moving from the top of a hot rock to the underside of a cool ledge to reduce its body temperature.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A formal description of an animal's behaviors.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Frequency of behavior, Duration of behavior, Rate of behavior, Intensity of behavior.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A summary of the total time and relative frequency of different behaviors of an individual.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Observing events, organizing knowledge, and providing explanations through the formulation and testing of hypotheses.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Observation, Research question, Research hypothesis, Prediction, Methodology (test of predictions), Analysis of data results, Reject/Fail to reject hypothesis.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An explanation that is based on assumptions and produces a testable prediction.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Alternative hypothesis, Null hypothesis.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The statistical hypothesis that the proposed explanation for an observation does significantly affect the behavior of the organism.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The statistical hypothesis that an observation results from chance.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Why is there a variation in the number of robins feeding in different yards?</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The amount of food in a yard determines the number of robins.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The amount of food in a yard does not determine the number of robins.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>When you get an outcome in which the null hypothesis is not rejected and therefore, the alternate hypothesis is rejected.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Develop a new alternate hypothesis to explain the observation.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Two variables that vary together predictably.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A hypothesis that has been tested many times by many different scientists and has not been rejected.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>What is the mechanism that causes the behavior, How does the behavior develop, What is the function of the behavior, How did the behavior evolve.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Proximate explanations because they focus on understanding the immediate causes of a behavior.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Ultimate explanations because they require evolutionary reasoning and analysis.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Darwin.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He found that an animal can use previous experiences to learn and modify behavior.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A psychologist who studies animal behavior to understand human behavior.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He said that the simplest psychological process possible should be used to interpret an animal's behavior (Morgan's canon).</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He used standardized methodology and the experimental method to learn that animals can demonstrate a learning curve.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He found that at first animals would associate a novel stimulus with an existing stimulus and that would cause them to elicit a particular response. Finally, the novel stimulus alone could cause the particular response.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He created operant chambers and found that animals would learn to associate a behavior with a particular consequence (either positive or negative).</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Food.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A painful shock.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He discovered that European honeybees communicate the distance and direction of food sources to other bees via a dance.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He studied imprinting and found that there is a restricted period of time during which imprinting can occur.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He studied instinct and found that they are unlearned and once started, they must be completed.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The attribution of human motivations, characteristics, or emotions to animals.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The scientific and objective study of animal behavior, with a focus on behavior under natural conditions, viewing behavior as an evolutionarily adaptive trait.</p> Signup and view all the answers