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Ethology and Animal Behavior
Chapter Quiz
1
Animal responses to stimuli are grouped into two categories, internal factors and external factors. Internal factors are considered to be of what origin?
A)
genetic
B)
learned
C)
environmental
2
What term defines the situation in which an animal learns to ignore stimuli it knows from experience to be harmless?
A)
conditioning
B)
insight learning
C)
reasoning
D)
imprinting
E)
habituation
3
What learning type might be described by animals associating their action with positive results after performing repeatedly a certain behavior?
A)
conditioning
B)
insight learning
C)
reasoning
D)
imprinting
E)
habituation
4
What type of learning is related to the ability to respond correctly the first time an animal encounters a certain situation?
A)
conditioning
B)
motivation
C)
reasoning
D)
imprinting
E)
habituation
5
What term is sometimes defined as the "organization of behavior"?
A)
habituation
B)
reasoning
C)
motivation
D)
intelligence
6
Research has demonstrated that salmon returning to the site of their spawning after many years absence is related predominantly to what factor?
A)
visual
B)
auditory
C)
smell
D)
directional beaconing
E)
reasoning
7
Which of the following species tend to control eliminative behavior to be the cleanest if given the chance?
A)
pigs
B)
dairy cattle
C)
sheep
8
The inclination of a hen to set on eggs is called what?
A)
ingestive behavior
B)
investigative behavior
C)
broodiness
D)
gregarious behavior
E)
dystocia
9
Sniffing an object is what type of behavior?
A)
ingestive
B)
investigative
C)
gregarious
D)
abnormal
10
Overcrowding in animal units can lead to cannibalism in some species.
A)
TRUE
B)
FALSE
11
Establishing a "pecking order" in a group of animals is strictly abnormal behavior and detrimental to herd or flock performance.
A)
TRUE
B)
FALSE
12
Typical nursing behavior in piglets leads to each piglet establishing claim to a specific teat when nursing and not changing until weaned.
A)
TRUE
B)
FALSE
13
Though most sows farrow in crates, nestbuilding would be a common maternal activity for sows that farrow in open conditions, such as in pasture or wooded areas.
A)
TRUE
B)
FALSE
14
Common behavior just prior to calving in a grazing herd situation is for the cow to come nearest possible to the center of the herd for protection during the birth process.
A)
TRUE
B)
FALSE
15
Both cows and mares generally exhibit "riding behavior" when at peak estrus.
A)
TRUE
B)
FALSE
16
Agonistic behavior is the term applied to shelter-seeking by cattle just prior to a storm.
A)
TRUE
B)
FALSE
17
The first ingestive behavior trait common to neonatal mammals is suckling.
A)
TRUE
B)
FALSE
18
Secretions of exocrine glands are prime determinants of many behaviors.
A)
TRUE
B)
FALSE
19
Gender behavior roles can be reversed in some species by injecting male or female hormones into an animal of the opposite sex.
A)
TRUE
B)
FALSE
20
The fighting trait in dogs appears to be mostly learned.
A)
TRUE
B)
FALSE
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