Exam 16: Culture, Cooperation, and Human Uniqueness

You have just completed a study of chimpanzee tool use. You noticed that young chimpanzees accompanied females to sites where tools and termites were available, and females practiced termite fishing. Young chimpanzees usually watched their mothers carefully while they made tools and fed. If these chimpanzees grow up to termite fish themselves, you can conclude that this behavior was passed on through which mechanism?

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Define social facilitation, observational learning, and emulation. How do these different types of learning mechanisms play a role in shaping human culture?

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Social facilitation occurs when the activity of one animal increases the chance that other animals will learn the behavior on their own. Observational learning, or imitation, occurs when naïve animals learn how to perform an action by watching the behavior of experienced, skilled animals. Emulation occurs when naïve individuals learn the end state of the behavior (a cracked nut) but not the behavior that generated the end state (pounding with hammer stone). Observational learning, especially when behaviors are copied faithfully, could facilitate cumulative cultural change, which sets humans apart from nonhuman primates.

Chimpanzees and capuchins likely lack complex cultural repertoires in part because

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Observational learning occurs when

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Which of the following statements about culture is true?

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Imagine you are a European explorer living in nineteenth-century Europe and you decide to embark on an expedition to explore the Arctic. Based on historical evidence, how likely are you to survive this journey and why?

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How does culture differ between human and nonhuman primates? How is it similar?

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Culture is defined in the text as

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Cultural group selection differs from natural selection in that

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Which of the following statements correctly describes the Turkana?

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A study on capuchins showed that they learn to forage Luhea fruit through

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Which of the following is a typical outcome of the dictator game?

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The Central Inuit, who inhabited the Canadian Arctic, made a living by

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Large-scale cooperation among humans may have been favored when

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Most cultural traditions in nonhuman primates can be accounted for by

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Social facilitation occurs when

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Are culturally transmitted behaviors always adaptive?

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Most mammals and birds attain appropriate behaviors matched to their environment through

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Which of the following did the Yurok do?

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You have just completed a study of chimpanzee tool use. You noticed that young chimpanzees accompanied females to sites where tools and termites were available, and females practiced termite fishing. Young chimpanzees usually played and socialized with each other while females fed. If these chimpanzees grow up to termite fish themselves, you can conclude that this behavior was passed on through which mechanism?

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Define social facilitation, observational learning, and emulation. How do these different types of learning mechanisms play a role in shaping human culture?

Chimpanzees and capuchins likely lack complex cultural repertoires in part because

Observational learning occurs when

Which of the following statements about culture is true?

Imagine you are a European explorer living in nineteenth-century Europe and you decide to embark on an expedition to explore the Arctic. Based on historical evidence, how likely are you to survive this journey and why?

How does culture differ between human and nonhuman primates? How is it similar?

Culture is defined in the text as

Cultural group selection differs from natural selection in that

Which of the following statements correctly describes the Turkana?

A study on capuchins showed that they learn to forage Luhea fruit through

Which of the following is a typical outcome of the dictator game?

The Central Inuit, who inhabited the Canadian Arctic, made a living by

Large-scale cooperation among humans may have been favored when

Most cultural traditions in nonhuman primates can be accounted for by

Social facilitation occurs when

Are culturally transmitted behaviors always adaptive?

Most mammals and birds attain appropriate behaviors matched to their environment through

Which of the following did the Yurok do?

Adaptation by Natural Selection

Genetics

The Modern Synthesis

Speciation and Phylogeny

Primate Diversity and Ecology

Primate Mating Systems

The Evolution of Cooperation

Primate Life Histories and the Evolution of Intelligence

From Tree Shrew to Ape

The Earliest Hominins

Early Homo and H Erectus 26-1 Ma

The Neanderthals and Their Contemporaries

Homo Sapiens and the Evolution of Modern Human Behavior

Human Genetics and Variation

Evolution and Human Behavior

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