Bio 410 Old Test (T.1)

Front 1

____ = genetic, selected for by natural selection

Back 1

adaptations

Front 2

____ = incidental/accidental, hitch-hiked with another trait, don’t always have a
genetic basis but do increase fitness

Back 2

adaptive trait

Front 3

The environment plays three
key roles in the production and evolution of animal
behavior. What are they?

Back 3

selection, development, and releases behavior/facilitates learning

Front 4

Of the following four questions about behavior, which two are more concerned with proximate causes?

Back 4

ontogeny, mechanism

Front 5

Give an example of a behavior that contradicts this statement: “If a behavior is totally inflexible in adults and
is exactly the same the first time it occurs as the last time, then it is clearly genetically determined.”

Back 5

imprinting (goose on human, etc); IUP effects; zebra finch song

Front 6

Approximately what percent of mammals are monogamous? _____%

Back 6

3

Front 7

Ethology developed primarily in America/Europe and was dealt primarily with
proximate/ultimate causes of behavior

Back 7

Europe/ ultimate

Front 8

Name the three men (last names only fine!) who shared the 1973 Nobel Prize for their behavior work.

Back 8

Lorenz, Tinbergen, von Frisch

Front 9

the fixed action pattern of the greylag goose: what is the releaser?
what is the consummatory act ?

Back 9

shape of egg outside nest
rolling egg back into nest

Front 10

Natural selection takes place directly at the level of the gene.

Back 10

false

Front 11

Nottebohm’s work with the neural basis of canary song discovered three important characteristics of the
canary brain in terms of song. Name two of these findings.

Back 11

sexual dimorphism/ left hemisphere dominant over right/ brain is plastic, varies in size with
the season

Front 12

____: knockout the gene, maternal behavior decreases
____: mutation= no smell and no sexual development/behaviors

Back 12

fosB
Kallman

Front 13

___: mutation=more neurotic behaviors
____: lovebird nest-building or deer examples
____: dunce mutation or transgenic per gene and song length changes

Back 13

BDNF
Hybridization
Drosphila

Front 14

The combined action of enkephalins and substance P is an example of integration/summation.

Back 14

integration

Front 15

Name two of the three ways that neurotransmitters may be removed from the synaptic cleft. (*name third)

Back 15

diffusion out
enzymes degrade
pumped back into presynaptic membrane

Front 16

Is the intrauterine position effect (IUP) an example of an activational or organizational effect? EXPLAIN.

Back 16

organizational… permanent, occurs early in life and is maintained

Front 17

What is/are the advantage(s) of having a pulsatile release of hormones?

Back 17

prevents accommodation/ conservation of resources

Front 18

Behavioral estrus occurs during which phase of the rat estrous cycle?

Back 18

proestrus

Front 19

Give an example of an activational effect of testosterone in males

Back 19

rooster- castrated loses comb and crow and sexual behavior
hamster- flank glands and dominance
rat- loses copulation behavior if castrate/ovariectomize
rat- increase learning ability with estrogen
monkeys- seasonal T levels, T levels around females and dominant male
human- T levels and sport or other competition

Front 20

The two major classes of endocrine disrupting compounds are ____ and ____.

Back 20

antiandrogens
environmental estrogens /(xenoestrogens)

Front 21

ive one of the major conclusions/lessons learned from Harlow’s deprivation experiments with rhesus
monkeys.

Back 21

physical contact necessary for normal social development
social bonds from physical contact, not nourishment
bare minimum (~15 min/day) of physical contact necessary for normal development

Front 22

What type of development, in terms of social behavior, were rhesus monkeys shown to have through these
experiments? EXPLAIN why this is so, based on the experiments.

Back 22

semi-restricted or flexible
- able to have normal social behavior when raised with a dog! Or under adverse
conditions (=not restricted)

Front 23

When you successfully study with the stereo on in the background, you are demonstrating

Back 23

habituation

Front 24

Squirrels seem to be able to figure out how to steal seeds from a bird feeder no matter what people do to try
to prevent them. Squirrels most likely figure out how to get to the feeders using which type of learning?

Back 24

operant conditioning

Front 25

hormone agonist

Back 25

DES

Front 26

anthropomorphism

Back 26

clever hans

Front 27

learn communication skills

Back 27

social play

Front 28

female puberty accelerated if adult male nearby

Back 28

vandenbergh

Front 29

female spontaneously aborts fetus around new male

Back 29

bruce

Front 30

male reproductive performance increases with new female

Back 30

coolidge

Front 31

important for predator avoidance, socialization

Back 31

filial imprinting

Front 32

cowbird learns song

Back 32

restricted development

Front 33

epigenesis

Back 33

MAOA

Front 34

hormones with very specific effects

Back 34

peptide

Front 35

most common type of hormone

Back 35

peptide

Front 36

____ observations, while only practical for observing one individual at a time, are great for events, as well as states of course

Back 36

Continuous

Front 37

events are ____ behaviors

Back 37

short