Exam 14: Three Levels of Selection: Biology, Behavior, and Culture

Social signaling is:

What are the two major sources of heritable genetic variation?

Sigrid Glenn (1991) argues that a major evolutionary advantage of operant learning is that:

A scientific challenge in providing a full evolutionary explanation for the complex dance that worker bees perform is:

Osgood (1953) observed infant babbling and found that:

A male stickleback fish becomes aggressively territorial when exposed to a stimulus such as ____________

Two major sources of genetic variation are mutations and _______.

Hirsch and McCauley's selection in flies for the ability to be conditioned to extend their proboscis when water is applied to their feet demonstrated that:

Respondent and operant conditioning are learning processes that:

Thomas Edison's "trial and success" approach to inventing can be described as a product of:

Egg laying in Aplysia is an example of ______.

Scheller and Axel (1984) found biological evidence that:

An organism's ____ refers to their genetic make-up.

In terms of selection, operants are selected by ______ and cultural practices are selected by ______.

If a population is subjected to extreme temperatures and as a consequence the next generation is more weather resistant, _____ has occurred.

Natural selection involves ______.

Which of the following is least likely to be a reason that a cultural practice remains stable even after the environmental demands that produced it are no longer present?

On most occasions mutations produce features that _____.

An organism's _____ refers to all the characteristics observed during the lifetime of an individual.

The single common principle operating at the level of biology, behavior, and culture is: