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Chapter 01: Introduction: Learning to Change
1. What is the best example of what Lucretius meant by his quotation, “Change is the only
constant”?
a. Habituation
b. Behavior
c. Evolution
d. Hybridization
ANSWER: c
2. What did work on selective breeding in foxes over a period of several decades show?
a. That animals with limited resources will go extinct
b. That behavioral characteristics can be selectively bred so that the descendants behave
more like a different species than like their own ancestors
c. That breeders had long changed the characteristics of animals through hybridization
d. That in an area with many foxes, rabbits should be more timid than in areas with
fewer foxes
ANSWER: b
3. Which scholar argued that unchecked population growth would eventually prove disastrous for
humans?
a. Lucretius
b. Robert FitzRoy
c. Charles Lyell
d. Thomas Malthus
ANSWER: d
4. Variation and natural selection are the foundations of what phenomenon?
a. Genetics
b. Evolution
c. Learning
d. Adaptation
ANSWER: b
5. Darwin suggested that natural selection is analogous to which of the following?
a. Breeding
b. Chemical synthesis
c. History
d. Learning
ANSWER: a
6. Imagine a species called a dax. All daxes have eye spots with 3 light-sensitive cells. No daxes
have 2 light-sensitive cells and no daxes have 4 light-sensitive cells. Is it likely that daxes will
evolve complex eyes? Why or why not?
a. No, because there is no variation in the population.
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b. Yes, because eye spots are heritable.
c. No, because eye spots are a mutation.
d. Yes, because all species eventually develop eyes.
ANSWER: a
7. Natural selection is illustrated by changes in the coloration of the peppered moth resulting
from what?
a. Industrial pollution
b. Drought
c. Loss of habitat
d. Long-term changes in the hydrologic cycle
ANSWER: a
8. Which of the following provides an example of evolution by artificial selection?
a. Predators find brightly colored fish more easily than camouflaged fish.
b. Farmers breed cows to produce more milk.
c. Females prefer to mate with male peacocks who have more colorful tails.
d. Wolves catch prey better when they hunt together in a pack than when they hunt
individually.
ANSWER: b
9. The pangobar, a fictitious cave-dwelling animal, breaks out in a cold sweat whenever exposed
to the sun. This reaction is most likely ______.
a. a reflex
b. a modal action pattern
c. a general behavioral trait
d. the result of learning
ANSWER: a
10. What is a reflex?
a. Any very simple behavior
b. A simple response to a simple event
c. A relationship between an event and a simple response
d. A purely physiological phenomenon
ANSWER: c
11. Modal action patterns are induced by events called ______.
a. genes
b. stimuli
c. releasers
d. reflexes
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Notes
1- The file is chapter after chapter.
2- We have shown you 10 or five pages.
3- The file contains all Appendix and Excel
sheet if it exists.
4- We have all what you need, we make
update at every time. There are many
new editions waiting you.
5- If you think you purchased the wrong file
You can contact us at every time, we can
replace it with true one.
Our email:
,Name: Class: Date:
Chapter 01: Introduction: Learning to Change
1. What is the best example of what Lucretius meant by his quotation, “Change is the only
constant”?
a. Habituation
b. Behavior
c. Evolution
d. Hybridization
ANSWER: c
2. What did work on selective breeding in foxes over a period of several decades show?
a. That animals with limited resources will go extinct
b. That behavioral characteristics can be selectively bred so that the descendants behave
more like a different species than like their own ancestors
c. That breeders had long changed the characteristics of animals through hybridization
d. That in an area with many foxes, rabbits should be more timid than in areas with
fewer foxes
ANSWER: b
3. Which scholar argued that unchecked population growth would eventually prove disastrous for
humans?
a. Lucretius
b. Robert FitzRoy
c. Charles Lyell
d. Thomas Malthus
ANSWER: d
4. Variation and natural selection are the foundations of what phenomenon?
a. Genetics
b. Evolution
c. Learning
d. Adaptation
ANSWER: b
5. Darwin suggested that natural selection is analogous to which of the following?
a. Breeding
b. Chemical synthesis
c. History
d. Learning
ANSWER: a
6. Imagine a species called a dax. All daxes have eye spots with 3 light-sensitive cells. No daxes
have 2 light-sensitive cells and no daxes have 4 light-sensitive cells. Is it likely that daxes will
evolve complex eyes? Why or why not?
a. No, because there is no variation in the population.
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b. Yes, because eye spots are heritable.
c. No, because eye spots are a mutation.
d. Yes, because all species eventually develop eyes.
ANSWER: a
7. Natural selection is illustrated by changes in the coloration of the peppered moth resulting
from what?
a. Industrial pollution
b. Drought
c. Loss of habitat
d. Long-term changes in the hydrologic cycle
ANSWER: a
8. Which of the following provides an example of evolution by artificial selection?
a. Predators find brightly colored fish more easily than camouflaged fish.
b. Farmers breed cows to produce more milk.
c. Females prefer to mate with male peacocks who have more colorful tails.
d. Wolves catch prey better when they hunt together in a pack than when they hunt
individually.
ANSWER: b
9. The pangobar, a fictitious cave-dwelling animal, breaks out in a cold sweat whenever exposed
to the sun. This reaction is most likely ______.
a. a reflex
b. a modal action pattern
c. a general behavioral trait
d. the result of learning
ANSWER: a
10. What is a reflex?
a. Any very simple behavior
b. A simple response to a simple event
c. A relationship between an event and a simple response
d. A purely physiological phenomenon
ANSWER: c
11. Modal action patterns are induced by events called ______.
a. genes
b. stimuli
c. releasers
d. reflexes
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