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Question 1Question 2Question 3Question 4Question 5Question 6Question 7Question 8Question 9Question 10Question 11Question 12Question 13Question 14Question 15Question 16Question 17Question 18Question 19Question 20Question 21Question 22Question 23Question 24Question 25Question 1Question 2Question 3Question 4Question 5Question 6Question 7Question 8Question 9Question 10Question 11Question 12Question 13Question 14Question 15Question 16Question 17Question 18Question 19Question 20Question 21Question 22Question 23Question 24Question 25- Question 12 out of 2 points Hart and Risley did a longitudinal study of the influence of the home verbal environment on children from different socioeconomic backgrounds. They found that ____.AnswerSelected Answer: children whose parents talked to them a lot later scored higher on IQ tests- Question 22 out of 2 points In the fox-breeding experiment, researchers selectively mated foxes that displayed ____ behavior.AnswerSelected Answer: dog-like- Question 30 out of 2 points A thumbtack stuck in a bulletin board several feet away is less likely to affect your behavior than a thumbtack placed on the chair on which you are sitting. Even though both examples involve a thumbtack, the second is more likely to qualify as a ____.AnswerSelected Answer: contingency- Question 42 out of 2 points The chief advantage of learning over natural selection as a means of adapting to change is that learning ____.AnswerSelected Answer: is faster- Question 52 out of 2 points A reflex is ____.AnswerSelected Answer: a relationship between an event and a simple response- Question 62 out of 2 points The tendency of some animals to hoard food is probably an example of ____.AnswerSelected Answer: a general behavior trait- Question 72 out of 2 points Most mutations ____.AnswerSelected Answer: are not helpful to survival- Question 82 out of 2 points Natural selection is often ____.AnswerSelected Answer: behind the times- Question 90 out of 2 points The phenomenon that is nearly the opposite of habituation is ____.AnswerSelected Answer: inhabituation- Question 100 out of 2 points The rooting of pigs (for worms, larvae, and truffles) is an example of aAnswerSelected Answer: reflex- Question 112 out of 2 points Variation and natural selection are the foundations of ____.AnswerSelected Answer: evolution- Question 122 out of 2 points The person who demonstrated that the marching of tropical army ants is not intelligent behavior is ____.AnswerSelected Answer: Schneirla- Question 132 out of 2 points Lee Cronk wrote an article on how evolved behavior can prove nonadaptive when the environment changes. The article was called ____.AnswerSelected Answer: Old Dogs, Old Tricks- Question 142 out of 2 points Steven says that he was very nervous when he first attended college classes, but now he feels quite relaxed. Steven's loss of anxiety is most likely an example of ____.AnswerSelected Answer: learning- Question 152 out of 2 points An ____ is something an organism tries to escape or avoid.AnswerSelected Answer: aversive- Question 162 out of 2 points Behavior is anything an animal or person does that can be ____.AnswerSelected Answer: measured- Question 172 out of 2 points The role of natural selection in the beaks of finches was the subject of research by ____.AnswerSelected Answer: Peter and Rosemary Grant- Question 180 out of 2 points ____ refers to modal action patterns as complex reflexes.AnswerSelected Answer: Charles Darwin- Question 192 out of 2 points The figure below most likely illustrates ____.AnswerSelected Answer: habituation- Question 200 out of 2 points One person who raised doubts about the incest taboo is ____.AnswerSelected Answer: Wilson- Question 212 out of 2 points Experience refers to ____.AnswerSelected Answer: events that affectbehavior- Question 222 out of 2 points The quotation, "Change is the only constant," is attributed to ____.AnswerSelected Answer: Lucretius- Question 230 out of 2 points The experiments of Harlow and Harlow demonstrated that how monkeys are reared ____.AnswerSelected Answer: has little effect on their behavior later in life- Question 242 out of 2 points There is evidence that the rate of ____ in fetuses is correlated with intellectual development after birth.AnswerSelected Answer: habituation- Question 250 out of 2 points Chapter 1 includes a box called The Face of Change. One point the essay makes is that ____.AnswerSelected Answer: learning means changing- Question 12 out of 2 points The quotation, "Change is the only constant," is attributed to ____.AnswerSelected Answer: Lucretius- Question 20 out of 2 points Learning isAnswerSelected Answer: a cognitive change that may be reflected in changes in behavior.- Question 32 out of 2 points The list of alleged human fixed action patterns ____.AnswerSelected Answer: has gotten shorter in recent years- Question 42 out of 2 points Your text defines behavior as anything an organism does that can be ____.AnswerSelected Answer: measured- Question 52 out of 2 points Natural selection is illustrated by changes in the coloration of the Peppered Moth resulting from ____.AnswerSelected Answer: industrial pollution- Question 62 out of 2 points According to David Buss, the work of Gregor Mendel ____.AnswerSelected Answer: had little or no influence on Darwin'sthinking- Question 72 out of 2 points The rooting of pigs (for worms, larvae, and truffles) is an example of aAnswerSelected Answer: MAP- Question 82 out of 2 points In the fox-breeding experiment, researchers selectively mated foxes that displayed ____ behavior.AnswerSelected Answer: dog-like- Question 92 out of 2 points Experience refers to ____.AnswerSelected Answer: events that affect behavior- Question 102 out of 2 points Darwin's theory of evolution has been around for about ____.AnswerSelected Answer: 150 years- Question 112 out of 2 points The phenomenon that is nearly the opposite of habituation is ____.AnswerSelected Answer: sensitization- Question 122 out of 2 points The chief advantage of learning over natural selection as a means of adapting to change is that learning ____.AnswerSelected Answer: is faster- Question 130 out of 2 points In her study of baboons, Shirley Strum found that the most successful males were ____.AnswerSelected Answer: bigger than other males- Question 140 out of 2 pointsThe gollypod, a fictitious aquatic animal, breaks out in a cold sweat whenever


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