Exam 2: Approaches to the Study of Animal Behavior

That a male European robin will attack a tuft of red feathers as readily as he will another male robin indicates that

Presenting a female empidid fly with a prey item such as an insect, wrapping a prey item in an elaborate cocoon, or presenting an elaborate, but empty, silken balloon all seem to revolve around the fact that

If a male 3-spined stickleback performs a zig-zag dance, the female is most likely to respond by

An interest in phylogeny (the evolutionary history of a species) is strongly characteristic of the work of

Knowing that some male empidid flies present females with a meal prior to attempting to mate with them helps us to understand the behavior of Hilara sator, where the male presents an elaborate silken balloon to the female before mating. This illustrates the importance of the

The individual who suggested using the term modal action pattern (MAP) rather than fixed action pattern (FAP) was

When a greylag goose retrieves an egg from outside the nest, she extends her neck, places the underside of her bill against the egg's far surface, and bends her neck to bring the egg into the nest with a chin-tucking movement. If the egg veers, she adjusts the position of her bill by moving it from side-to-side to correct the direction of the roll. If the egg is removed after the goose has begun the retrieval process, what will happen?

Which of the following individuals is more closely associated with ethology than with comparative psychology?

If you are working in a laboratory, trying to establish the details of the way an animal learns a new behavior, you are most likely a(n)

The relatively new field of sociobiology stimulated a great deal of research because it provided a framework within which to test hypotheses. Most of the hypotheses tested, however, dealt with only one of the four questions about animal behavior, and that was the behavior's

The ethological approach to the study of behavior received significant international recognition when the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded in 1973 to

Considering the activity of networks of genes instead of looking at the effect of one gene at a time is the focus of

Which of the following statements is TRUE?

Which of the following statements regarding chains of reactions is FALSE?

Barlow (1968) recommended using the term modal action pattern (MAP) rather than fixed action pattern (FAP) because he believed that most patterns of behavior are

A motor response characterized as being stereotyped, elicited by simple but specific environmental stimuli, and continuing to completion even if the eliciting stimulus is removed may safely be classified as a(n)

George J. Romanes suggested that which of the following emotions appeared, evolutionarily, as early as in the larvae of insects or in segmented worms?

A difference between field studies conducted now and those of the pioneering researchers in ethology is that the earlier field studies

Whitman and Heinroth each, independently, suggested that some patterns of movement might be just as reliable as morphological characters in defining particular species of birds. This is because

An ethologist is more likely to view living organisms