Learning
This type of learning occurs when you 'get used to something'.
Habituation
The shape of DNA.
What is a double helix?
Simple = nature OR nurture
Complex = nature AND nurture
This type of learning is the most complicated form of learning.
Insight Learning
What hormone can you take as a supplement to help you sleep?
Melatonin
This type of learning occurs when good behaviors are rewarded and bad behaviors are punished.
Operant Conditioning
These two things form as a result of double fertilization.
What is the zygote and endosperm?
The natural time signal for the circadian pattern is the:
Sun / Change from darkness to light
Why do birds migrate?
To move to an environment in which resource availability is favorable.
What is the definition of learning?
Acquiring changes in behavior during one's lifetime.
The training of an animal to produce a conditioned response to a conditioned stimulus is known as.
Classical Conditioning
What two atoms are attracted to one another between water molecules and what are charges can you ascribe to those atoms?
O- to H+
Territoriality is often associated with what trait?
Aggression
This type of learning is 'trial-and-error' learning.
Operant Conditioning
What is Pavlov's first name?
Ivan
You are playing soccer when you are faced with a situation you have never encountered before. You handle the situation perfectly because you applied something similar that you learned in the past. This is an example of what type of learning?
Insight Learning
The order of mammals which has a name that roughly translates to "Hand wing".
Chiroptera
A group of animals of the same species that interact closely and often cooperate is called a(n):
Animal Society
What is the 'nature' component of imprinting?
What is the 'nurture component of imprinting?
nature = tendency to follow the first thing you see
nurture = learning what thing you will follow
What type of spider is often killed by the female during their courtship ritual?
Peacock Spider
What are the scientists B.F. Skinner and Konrad Lorenz known for?
B.F. Skinner - Operant Conditioning
Konrad Lorenz - Complex Behaviors
Water can dissociate into what two ions?
Hydroxide and Hydronium Ions
_____ suggests that helping relatives will improve an individual’s fitness by allowing genes to be passed on.
Kin Selection
Explain why Kin Selection is evolutionarily advantageous.
Genes that promote family team dynamics are more likely to be passed on through generations because those individuals are more likely to mate.
From what two Latin words does the English word 'Circadian' come from.
Circa Dies (About the Day)