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17. Chivers found that damselfly larvae learn about predation…
17. Chivers found that damselfly larvae learn about predation threat through _______ cues.
Question 17 options:
a) visual cues
b) auditory cues
c) chemical cues
d) vibrational cues
18. When information is transmitted from peer to peer or between individuals of the same generation we call this___
Question 18 options:
a) Horizontal cultural transmission
b) Oblique cultural transmission
c) Filial cultural transmission
d) Vertical cultural transmission
19. When teachers actively place students in a “situation conducive to learning a new skill or acquiring knowledge” we call this___
Question 19 options:
a) Focal reliant teaching
b) Place centered teaching
c) Coaching
d) Opportunity teaching
20. A robin is sitting on a branch and sees another robin 15 meters away kicking the leaves on the ground. The robin flies off the branch and over to the area with the robin that is kicking. Once there, the robin begins to walk around and by chance discovers that there are tasty worms underneath the leaves in this area. This above scenario would best be defined as ________.
Question 20 options:
a) Local enhancement
b) Classical conditioning
c) Social facilitation
d) Teaching
21. Which of the following is not true about cultural transmission?
Question 21 options:
a) It involves the spread of information from individual to individual
b) The information transferred by this mechanism is lost when the individual who initially learns it dies
c) It can be a more efficient way of transferring information compared to individual learning
d) It spreads new behavioral traits in a population within a single generation
22. Sponging, the behavior where some bottlenose dolphins place a sponge on their beak when they dig in the sand for fish to eat, and herding fish onto shore to make it easy to catch them are two examples we read about and saw in video clips. In these cases the mode of cultural transmission can best be characterized as _________.
Question 22 options:
a) Horizontal cultural transmission
b) Circular cultural transmission
c) Oblique cultural transmission
d) Vertical cultural transmission
23. The difference between imitation and copying is that in copying_____.
Question 23 options:
a) There is no requirement that what is being copied is novel
b) What is copied does not necessarily involve a new topographical action
c) The behavior being copied must by be done by more than one individual
d) Both a and b
24. When an observer is drawn to an area by the mere presence of another individual, the observer now has the opportunity to learn new things simply by being attracted to the new area. We call this___
Question 24 options:
a) location displacement
b) social facilitation
c) local enhancement
d) teaching
25. Copying differs from imitation in that copying___
Question 25 options:
a) does not require what is being copied to be novel or a new topographical action
b) does not require the behavior being copied to be passed on from parent to offspring
c) does not require the model organism to do any particular behavior
d) requires that one individual acts as a teacher and the other as a student
26. The transfer of information from individual to individual through social learning or teaching, both within and between generations of animals is called_____.
Question 26 options:
a) Epigenetic selection
b) Epigenetic transfer
c) Information selection
d) Cultural transmission
27. Which of the following was not one of the requirements that Caro and Hauser listed for a behavior to be labeled as “teaching”?
Question 27 options:
a) The teacher must be teaching naïve students
b) The teacher must provide an immediate benefit to the student but not to herself
c) The teacher must impart new information to students faster than they would otherwise receive it
d) The teacher must only teach in the absence of other potential teachers
28. In meerkats, young pups are assisted by older “helpers”. The helpers first present the naive pups with scorpions with their stingers removed and will retrieve prey when the pups lose it. This behavior is called_________.
Question 28 options:
a) teaching
b) social facilitation
c) local enhancement
d) individual learning
29. When an observer is drawn to an area by the actions of another individual, the observer now has the opportunity to learn new things simply by being attracted to the new area. We call this___
Question 29 options:
a) location displacement
b) teaching
c) social facilitation
d) local enhancement
