MCQ Bank
Lorenz identified ______________ characteristics of fixed action patterns.
- A) 8
- B) 6
- C) 3
- D) 5
__________regurgitate blood and donate it to other members of their group who have failed to feed that night, ensuring they do not starve.
- A) Worker bee
- B) Vervet monkeys
- C) Vampire bats
- D) Emperor penguins
Neuronal Plasticity is the capacity of ___________to change with experience.
- A) Endocrine system
- B) Respiratory system
- C) Circulatory system
- D) Nervous system
______________ is a sequence of unlearned, innate behaviour that is unchangeable.
- A) Flexible Action Pattern
- B) Fixed Action Pattern
- C) Fixed Action Potential
- D) Flexible Action Potential
Neurons are permeable to _________ flow.
- A) blood
- B) water
- C) lymph
- D) ion
One obvious benefit for social aggregations is________, both passive and active, from predators?
- A) No benefit at all
- B) Offence
- C) Defense
- D) Migration
Agonistic Behaviors in any social behavior is related to _________.
- A) Fighting
- B) Isolation
- C) Migration
- D) Reproduction
__________ takes the nerve impulse towards the cell body.
- A) Dendron
- B) Axon
- C) Mitochondria
- D) Tentacles
Ability of an animal’s nervous system to perceive, store, process, and use information gathered by sensory receptors called _____________.
- A) Social learning
- B) Humanism
- C) Insight learning
- D) Animal Cognition
The aggressive attacking behavior of male three-spined stickleback fish is an example of ______________.
- A) Flexible Action Potential
- B) Fixed Action Pattern
- C) Flexible Action Pattern
- D) Fixed Action Potential
Gravitation pull of _____________ determines timing of tidal rhythms in marine environments.
- A) earth
- B) sun
- C) moon
- D) star
A stimulus that is strong enough to initiate an impulse is called a __________ .
- A) synapse
- B) signal
- C) impulse
- D) threshold
Cross-fostering study and Twin Studies are the methods to study _________.
- A) genetic disease
- B) gene expression
- C) genetic diversity
- D) genetic variability
Neurons are permiable to ____________ ions.
- A) Na+
- B) Cr3+
- C) Cl-
- D) Al3+
Selective process shaping the history of a behavioural trait explans _____________.
- A) survival cause
- B) proximity cause
- C) ultimate cause
- D) Proximate cause
The ____________ hormone is critical for stimulating male sexual behaviors.
- A) Oxitocin
- B) Prolectin
- C) Estrogen
- D) Testosterone
Which of the following is relevant to instinctive behavior?
- A) Coccon spinning in buterflies
- B) Speaking in humans
- C) Chimpanzee reaching to banana
- D) Squirrel avoiding repeated stimulus such as car horns
Behaviors that are variable with experience are called____________.
- A) Innate Behavior
- B) Territoriality
- C) None of these
- D) Learning Behavior
____________is the affect an individual has on proliferating its own genes by reproducing and helping relatives raise offspring.
- A) Inclusive fitness
- B) Aggregation
- C) Kin selection
- D) Animal societies
Behavior is sum of nervous and ___________ systems.
- A) Excretory
- B) Endocrine
- C) Skeletal
- D) Digestive