Exam 8: The Development of Behavior

What does happen "when you put a chicken back into an egg?" as did Bekoff and Kauer (1984)?

When young male white-crowned sparrows were tutored with tape recordings of songs of both song sparrows and white-crowned sparrows, they

When house mouse adult females are compared with one another on the basis of their fetal intrauterine positions, adult 2M females (female fetuses who had been nestled between two male fetuses), when compared with 0M females (female fetuses who had not been next to a male),

Research suggests that song development in sparrows consists of two phases: a sensory phase and a sensorimotor phase. During the sensorimotor phase, a male bird

Which of the following pairings accurately reflects the behavioral and neural embryonic development of the Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)?

The songs of male cowbirds reared in isolation from male conspecifics are substantially more appealing to female cowbirds than are the songs of males reared in groups. Additional observation revealed that when they were individually introduced into an aviary with an established colony of cowbirds,

The disappearance of crawling behavior in the tobacco hornworm (Manduca sexta) is the result of

Deposition of increasing levels of yolk androgens may be a way for mothers to adjust the developmental trajectories of their offspring to current environmental conditions. In black-headed gulls, for example, this might

The disappearance of the proleg behaviors in the tobacco hornworm (Manduca sexta) and the disappearance of leg movements associated with hatching in the domestic chicken (Gallus domesticus) differ from one another in that

Maternal attachment differs from filial imprinting in that maternal attachment

Which of the following would have been part of the definition of a "critical period" as originally defined by Konrad Lorenz? That the critical period was a phase of an animal's development that

In order for Peking ducklings to develop an appropriate following response, Gottlieb and coworkers demonstrated that they must

Evidence for sexual imprinting has been found in mammals as well as birds, for example in studies conducted by Kendrick and colleagues with sheep and goats. What physical characteristics do these animals seem to be attending to as they develop their preferences?

Reimers and colleagues (2007) studied 13 male chimpanzees who had experienced profound social isolation and found that, even two decades or more later, they could recover and live less stressful lives with conspecifics. This capacity for resiliency is referred to as

The more recent term "sensitive period" has largely replaced Lorenz's earlier term "critical period". This is because the newer term reflects the results of recent research suggesting that the developmental periods being described

Research suggests that song development in sparrows consists of two phases: a sensory phase and a sensorimotor phase. During the sensory phase,

Field experiments with free-living birds, such as those conducted by Slagsvold and coworkers, indicate that species vary in their sensitivity to sexual imprinting. It has been suggested that sensitivity to sexual imprinting may be decreased in species that are

As young male song sparrows move from the plastic phase of song to the crystallized phase, they sometimes drop songs from their plastic song repertoire.

You would have a higher probability of being able to sing your species song at sexual maturity without having heard it during the earliest stages of your life if you were a

The songs of male cowbirds reared in isolation from male conspecifics were substantially more appealing to female cowbirds than were the songs of normal males. Why were their songs believed to be more potent than those of the group reared males?