Exam 1: Introduction: Learning to Change

Modal action patterns are induced by events called ______.

In Darwin's day, the laws governing inheritance were not generally known.

Natural selection helps the individual adapt to changes in its environment.

The cross-breeding of closely related species is called hybridization.

The brown-headed cowbird puts its eggs in other birds's nests. This is an example of a ______.

Teenagerus Americanus, a two-legged ape indigenous to North America, breaks out in a cold sweat whenever exposed to elevator music. This reaction is most likely ______.

The dispute over the relative importance of genetics and learning is often called the ________ debate.

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 _______.

Darwin suggested that natural selection is analogous to

The word stimulus always refers to events in an organism's surroundings.

The rooting of pigs (for worms, larvae, and truffles) is an example of a

The best title for the figure below is _________.

Hart and Risley did a longitudinal study of the influence of the home verbal environment on children from different socioeconomic backgrounds. They found that _______.

The author of your text excludes thoughts and feelings from the realm of behavior.

Work on selective breeding in ___________ over a period of 40 years shows that behavioral characteristics can be selectively bred so that the descendants behave more like a different species than like their own ancestors.

Darwin was influenced by the book, An Essay on the Principle of Population, by

The list of alleged human instincts ______.

The author of your text evidently believes that _______.

Learning always involves the acquisition of new behaviors.

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 ________.