Animal Behavior Test Questions
Course Introduction
Animal Behavior examines the diverse ways in which animals interact with each other and their environments, exploring the underlying mechanisms, evolutionary origins, and adaptive significance of behavioral patterns. Topics covered include communication, mating strategies, foraging, navigation, social organization, learning, and instinctual behaviors. Students will investigate how genetic, neurological, ecological, and evolutionary factors shape behavior across a wide range of species, and will consider both laboratory and field research approaches. The course provides a foundation for understanding the complex relationships between animals and their habitats, with applications in conservation, animal welfare, and human-animal interactions.
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Learning and Behavior 7th Edition by James
E. Mazur
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Chapter 1: History, background, and Basic Concepts
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Q1) Ebbinghaus's results suggest that continuing to recite a poem after you have learned it perfectly
A)will improve your ability to remember it later
B)will harm your ability to remember it later
C)will have no affect on your ability to remember it later
D)will interfere with your ability to learn other poems
Answer: A
Q2) B. F. Skinner used white rats in his early experiments because A)they exhibit only the simplest learning abilities
B)they had been frequently used in medical research
C)he felt it did not matter what species he studied
D)none of the above
Answer: C
Q3) A neuron's transmitter is released from its
A)cell body
B)axon terminals
C)dendrites
D)nucleus
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Innate Behavior Patterns and Habituation
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Q1) Kandel's research on Aplysia has shown that the habituation of the gill-withdrawal response
A)always occurs in a single trial
B)dissipates with time
C)is completely different from habituation in higher organisms
D)all of the above
Answer: B
Q2) A fixed-action pattern
A)will stop immediately if the behavior is not appropriate for the situation
B)is a sequence of behaviors that occur in a rigid order
C)both a and b
D)neither a and b
Answer: B
Q3) A reaction chain differs from a fixed action pattern in that it
A)is innate
B)is a sequence of behaviors
C)is more adaptive to the current environmental conditions
D)may be found in only one species
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Basic Principles of Classical Conditioning
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Q1) In a conditioned suppression procedure,the indication that a subject has associated CS and US is
A)an increase in responding when the CS comes on
B)a decrease in responding when the CS comes on
C)an increase in responding when the US comes on
D)a decrease in responding when the US comes on
Answer: B
Q2) In classical conditioning,the intensity of the US affects
A)the rate of acquisition
B)the asymptote of conditioning
C)both a and b
D)neither a nor b
Answer: C
Q3) Pavlov's theory of spontaneous recovery includes the assumption that newly learned associations
A)are more durable than older associations
B)are more fragile than older associations
C)replace older associations
D)none of the above
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: Theories and Research on Classical Conditioning
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Q1) A limitation of the Rescorla-Wagner model is that it cannot predict
A)the overexpectation effect
B)the CS preexposure effect
C)inhibitory conditioning
D)overshadowing
Q2) Experiments with rats have found that they are most likely to associate
A)tastes with illness
B)tastes with shock
C)shock with illness
D)audio-visual stimuli with illness
Q3) In the phenomenon of overshadowing,a CS fails to acquire much excitatory strength because
A)it has previously undergone habituation
B)it is paired with a very strong US
C)it is presented in compound with a very strong CS
D)it is simply too weak a stimulus to be conditioned
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Chapter 5: Basic Principles of Operant Conditioning
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Q1) Skinner's explanation of his superstition experiment made use of the concept of A)interim behaviors
B)terminal behaviors
C)accidental reinforcement
D)none of the above
Q2) Autoshaping will not be observed unless
A)illumination of the key light predicts an upcoming food delivery
B)a peck at the key produces immediate food
C)a peck at the key produces a darkening of the key light
D)all of the above
Q3) Experiments that repeated the basic procedure of Skinner's superstition experiment found
A)no evidence that animals repeated similar behaviors trial after trial
B)evidence for adjunctive behaviors during the time between reinforce deliveries
C)evidence that one animal would learn a superstitious behavior by observing another animal
D)none of the above
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Chapter 6: Reinforcement Schedules: Experimental
Analyses and Applications
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Q1) To be effective,a token reinforcement system
A)must provide the patient with tokens that are physical objects,such as poker chips
B)should only allow the tokens to purchase desired activities,not physical objects
C)should be terminated abruptly once a patient's behavior has improved
D)none of the above
Q2) Extinction is usually slowest after reinforcement on a
A)continuous reinforcement schedule
B)fixed-ratio schedule
C)variable-ratio schedule
D)fixed-interval schedule
Q3) Evidence from laboratory experiments on why responding is faster on VR than VI schedules has favored
A)the molar theory
B)the molecular theory
C)the fatigue theory
D)the generalization decrement theory
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Chapter 7: Avoidance and Punishment
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Q1) Removing a pleasant stimulus after a behavior occurs is called
A)positive reinforcement
B)negative reinforcement
C)punishment
D)negative punishment
Q2) To treat a woman in a psychiatric hospital who hoarded towels,the nurses gave the woman a large number of towels.This is an example of
A)extinction
B)stimulus satiation
C)overcorrection
D)response prevention
Q3) To obtain the maximum reduction in a behavior,the most effective schedule of punishment is
A)continuous punishment
B)fixed-ratio punishment
C)variable-ratio punishment
D)fixed-interval punishment
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Chapter 8: Theories and Research on Operant Conditioning
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Q1) Functional analysis of unusual behaviors,such as self-injurious behavior,has shown that these behaviors sometimes occur because
A)they are reinforced with attention
B)they may produce automatic reinforcement
C)they may be reinforced by escape from unpleasant tasks
D)all of the above
Q2) One research finding that poses a problem for Premack's principle is that
A)a behavior that acts as a reinforcer in one context may not be a reinforcer in another context
B)a behavior that acts as a punisher in one context may not be a punisher in another context
C)more probable behaviors can sometimes reinforce less probable behaviors
D)less probable behaviors can sometimes reinforce more probable behaviors
Q3) The fact that vitamin B is not a reinforcer is evidence
A)supporting need-reduction theory
B)against need-reduction theory
C)supporting trans-situationality
D)against trans-situationality
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Chapter 9: Stimulus Control and Concept Learning
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Q1) Experiments on sensory deprivation have shown that if birds are prevented from seeing different colors when they are young,
A)the birds are color blind as adults
B)the birds can still see different colors but respond to all of them in the same way
C)the birds may still discriminate between different colors in a generalization test
D)the birds will discriminate between different colors in a generalization test only after they receive discrimination training
Q2) According to the theory of Lashley and Wade,generalization is
A)an automatic by-product of the conditioning process
B)dependent on discrimination training along the relevant dimension
C)partly a and partly b
D)neither a nor b
Q3) Spence's theory of stimulus control states that during discrimination training
A)an excitatory generalization gradient develops around the S
B)an inhibitory generalization gradient develops around the S
C)both a and b
D)neither a nor b
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Chapter 10: Comparative Cognition
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Q1) Which of the following provides evidence for maintenance rehearsal in animals-
A)research on discrimination reversals
B)research on directed forgetting
C)research on the speed of acquisition in classical conditioning
D)all of the above
Q2) Suppose a rabbit receives a series of classical conditioning trials,and after a trial,something surprising happens.The conditioning will probably be slowest if the surprising event occurs
A)3 seconds after each conditioning trial
B)10 seconds after each conditioning trial
C)90 seconds after each conditioning trial
D)after some conditioning trials but not others
Q3) Research has suggested that rats in a radial-arm maze tend to use
A)prospective coding
B)retrospective coding
C)both a and b
D)neither a nor b
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Chapter 11: Learning by Observation
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Q1) In his research on the achievement motivation of different countries,McClelland found a positive correlation between
A)achievement motives in children's stories and current economic growth
B)achievement motives in children's stories and economic growth over the next 25 years
C)achievement motives in children's stories and economic growth over the past 25 years
D)none of the above
Q2) In video self-modeling,the patient sees a video of himself or herself
A)performing a behavior correctly
B)performing a behavior incorrectly
C)both a and b
D)neither a nor b
Q3) According to Bandura's theory,all of the following are needed for imitation to occur except
A)attention
B)generalization
C)motor abilities
D)incentive
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Chapter 12: Learning Motor Skills
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Q1) If one task involves making two consecutive movements and another involves making four consecutive movements,research suggests that a person will
A)take longer to begin the longer sequence
B)take longer to begin the shorter sequence
C)pause before completing the last movement of the long sequence
D)pause before completing the last movement of the short sequence
Q2) Positive transfer is most likely to be observed when two motor tasks involve
A)similar responses to similar stimuli
B)different responses to similar stimuli
C)different responses to different stimuli
D)either a or c
Q3) According to Adams's two-stage theory of motor learning,when a person shifts from the verbal-motor stage to the motor stage,the person has
A)a fairly good perceptual trace
B)a fairly good motor trace
C)both a and b
D)neither a nor b
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Chapter 13: Choice
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Q1) A self-control choice is a choice between a _______ reinforcer and a _______ reinforcer.
A)small and immediate;large and delayed
B)small and delayed;large and immediate
C)small and risky;large and guaranteed
D)immediate and guaranteed;delayed and risky
Q2) Cases in which people choose a small immediate reinforcer instead of a larger delay reinforcer can be viewed as evidence
A)against optimization theory
B)against momentary maximizing theory
C)against the Ainslie-Rachlin theory
D)supporting optimization theory
Q3) Children are more likely to choose a more desirable but delayed reinforcer over an immediate but less desirable reinforcer if
A)both reinforcers are visible during the delay period
B)stimuli associated with the reinforcers are present during the delay period
C)some other,irrelevant behavior can be performed during the delay period
D)all of the above
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