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what are some advantages of biological clock
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it allows animal to anticipate change in env., behavior can be timed with event that cannot be sensed directly, allows for measurement of time
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what are some characteristics of bio clocks
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cycles continue even without obvious env cues (light/dark), cycles are stable and quite precise.
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T/F there is no drift in biological clock rhyths
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false there is some
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the Palolo worm and ant lion show what type of length biological clock?
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monthly
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Zeitgeber is teh german term for what?
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the external cues that set biological clocks
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what is entrainment
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the process of setting biological clock
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True / false the golden-mantled ground squirrel shows evidence for endogenous thythms because of its hybernation.
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true
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waht showed evidence for exogenous rhythms
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cricket song
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what showed evidence that cercadian rhythm has a cellular mechanism
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drosophila / fruit fly
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true/ false genes are dirrectly related to behavior?
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false- genes far removed from behavior
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in ___ and ___ XX= male and XY= female
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birds/ butterflies
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____ studied the genetic behavior of nest carrying in lovebirds
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Dilger
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____ and ___ did research on genetics of dog behavior?
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Scott and Fuller
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_____ did study on that some honeybees are susceptible to bacterial infection that kills larvae
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Rothenbuhler
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In honeybee experiment was hygenic behavior recessive or dominant
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recessive
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_____ is the name of the process where useless phenotypes get passed on because they are associated with usefull phenotypes.
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pleitrophy `
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_____ is the term used to describe organisms that are mix between males and females
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gynandromorphs
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In drosophila what is the genotype of wierd male
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XO
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what causes some males to be XO in drosophila
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the ring structure of the unstable male chromosone
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In mice what chemical allows males to recognize females?
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Oxytocin
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_____ did study where when you knock out the PET-1 gene in mice then when they are adults they show more agression
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Deneris
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what does the PET-1 code for
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the production of serotonin
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what do monogamous and non-monogamous voles differ in
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the distribution of Vasopressin receptors
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true/ false vasopressin is both necessary and suffecient to creating of male/ female bonds
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True
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____ tested the genetic intelligence of rats by using maze and breeding smart with smart/ dumb with dumb.
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Tryon
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in the study on the effects of environment on performance in rats the there was the biggest difference in the in the performance in the _____ evn.
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normal
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learning is a specific modification or change of behavior involving the ______ that occurs as a result of _____ with an external event or seiries of events in an individual's life
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nervous system, experience
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True / false maturation of the nervous system does count as learning?
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false
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____ involves the gradual fading of an unlearned response to a stimulus that roves to be safe or irrelevant.
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habituation
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what is the unlearned behavior that was studied in the marnine snail
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gill retraction
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habituation involves less change at _____.
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synapse between sensory and motor neurons
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____ involves creating a response to a previously irrelevant stimulus because something relevant occured shorty before
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sensitization
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what is based on changes in the stimului to elicit behavior
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classical conditioning
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in pavlov exp what is food, bell, salivation, slobbering when you hear bell
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US, CS, UR, CR
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What are the 3 things that conditioning learning depends on
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1 consistency with which US follows the CS 2 amount of time between the US and CS. 3 the relavence of the US to animal at time presented.
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what is another name for predispostion to learn
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programmed learning
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who used study with two groups of rats to show that not all accociations are learned equally as well
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Garcia
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Which two groups of rats avoided water
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rats that were shown light, sound and shocked AND rats that were tasted sugar and got X-rays
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____ is bassed on actions result in consequences: that reinforces influence the likelihood of those actions ocurring agian
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Operant conditiong or trial and error learning
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____ did work with operant conditiong
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Skinner
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_____ involves gaining experience, when there is no immediate reinforces that modifies behavior.
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latent (exploratory) learning
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___ learning is where an animal learns to do something by watching what another is doing
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observational (cultural) learning
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The study of the Janancese macaque demostrated what form of learning
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observational
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____ had the view that that observation did not happen but that you were just drown to usefull area by a animal and then you had to figure it out for yourself
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Tomecello
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what is the difference between immitation and observation
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immitation you just copy what someone is doing at the same time as them and in observation you know why you are doing something.
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___ is a type of learning where you working on problem and get idea on how to solve it,
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insight learning
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____ was a critic of insight learning and ___ was supporter
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Macphail/ Heinrich
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what class of learning is important in first weeks of organisms life
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imprinting
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what is another name for predispostion to learn
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programmed learning
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_____ is teh type of learning involved in birds learning bird songs
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programmed learning
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what are the two functions of bird songs
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mating call/ territorial defence
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who used study with two groups of rats to show that not all accociations are learned equally as well
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Garcia
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____ type of bird can learn new songs every year
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Canary
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Which two groups of rats avoided water
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rats that were shown light, sound and shocked AND rats that were tasted sugar and got X-rays
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____ is bassed on actions result in consequences: that reinforces influence the likelihood of those actions ocurring agian
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Operant conditiong or trial and error learning
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_____ is a visual representation of sound
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sound spectrograph
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true/ false the songs of white crowwned sparrows are the same in local regions.
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false- they are different
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____ did work with operant conditiong
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Skinner
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_____ involves gaining experience, when there is no immediate reinforces that modifies behavior.
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latent (exploratory) learning
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what are the 4 stages of brid song development
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1) early subsong
2 latesubsong 3 plastic song 4 full song |
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What area of the brain is enlarged in males who sing
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robust archistraiturn (RA)
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___ learning is where an animal learns to do something by watching what another is doing
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observational (cultural) learning
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The study of the Janancese macaque demostrated what form of learning
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observational
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____ had the view that that observation did not happen but that you were just drown to usefull area by a animal and then you had to figure it out for yourself
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Tomecello
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what is the difference between immitation and observation
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immitation you just copy what someone is doing at the same time as them and in observation you know why you are doing something.
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during the ____ phase the male practices his song
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subsong
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what happens if W-c sparrow hears onl a sparrow song or nothing?
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he has an identical simple tune that does not match the normal song
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what song results when W-C sparrow hears w-c song but is dearened before he can practice?
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he has imperfect song
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can W-C learn the songs of other species
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yes- think strawberry finchy example
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_____ involves determing the adaptive value of a behavior
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evaluative
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