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    Behavioral Ecology Questions

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    This document contains 11 questions about behavioral ecology concepts from a Campbell textbook. The questions cover: 1) The difference between proximate and ultimate causes of behavior and examples of each. 2) The difference between a kinesis and a taxis and examples of each. 3) A hypothesis about where pillbugs would be found in a choice chamber experiment. 4) Speculations about the most effective signal type for communication in different animal examples. 5) The differences between classical and operant conditioning with examples. 6) What a failure to respond to a repeated stimulus represents. 7) What human twin studies have suggested about the roles of environment and

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    This document contains 11 questions about behavioral ecology concepts from a Campbell textbook. The questions cover: 1) The difference between proximate and ultimate causes of behavior and examples of each. 2) The difference between a kinesis and a taxis and examples of each. 3) A hypothesis about where pillbugs would be found in a choice chamber experiment. 4) Speculations about the most effective signal type for communication in different animal examples. 5) The differences between classical and operant conditioning with examples. 6) What a failure to respond to a repeated stimulus represents. 7) What human twin studies have suggested about the roles of environment and

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    This document contains 11 questions about behavioral ecology concepts from a Campbell textbook. The questions cover: 1) The difference between proximate and ultimate causes of behavior and examples of each. 2) The difference between a kinesis and a taxis and examples of each. 3) A hypothesis about where pillbugs would be found in a choice chamber experiment. 4) Speculations about the most effective signal type for communication in different animal examples. 5) The differences between classical and operant conditioning with examples. 6) What a failure to respond to a repeated stimulus represents. 7) What human twin studies have suggested about the roles of environment and

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    Behavioral Ecology Questions you may want to use Campbell Textbook to answer a

    few of these
    1. What is the difference between proximate and ultimate causes? Develop a
    question that inquires about a proximate cause of a specific behavior and a
    second question that inquires about an ultimate cause of a specific behavior.

    2. What is the difference between a kinesis and a taxis? Please give an example (not
    used in the text) for each.

    3. Imagine that you were doing a lab with in which you put pill bugs in choice
    chambers. If one chamber has a dry disk of filter paper and the other a damp
    disk of filter paper, hypothesize where the pillbugs will likely be after 15 minutes.
    Explain.

    4. Signals can cause changes in behaviors and are the basis for animal
    communication. Signals may be pheromones, visual or auditory. Speculate and
    explain your reasoning on which signal would be most effect in the following
    animals:
    a. A male robin defending his territory from other males
    b. A male fruit fly courting a female
    c. A female moth looking for a mate in the 100 acre woods
    d. Your pet dog in claiming your house as his own when a strange dog shows
    up

    5. What are the differences between classical conditioning and operant
    conditioning? Please give an example (not used in the text) for each.

    6. Your roommate snores, but after 3-4 nights you no longer notice. What behavior
    does your failure to respond to this stimulus represent? Explain.

    7. What has human twin studies suggested about the role of environment (nurture)
    and genetics (nature) in human behavior? Give some examples to illustrate your
    arguments.

    8. Discuss how altruism can increase the evolutionary fitness of an individual.

    9. Male competition for breeding access to females often uses ritualized behaviors.
    What is the adaptive advantage of not fighting to the death in these cases?
    Explain.

    10. What is the role of mutation in evolution of fixed action patterns?

    11. Write then answer a question from this chapter than you think was important
    enough to be on an AP exam but was not tested by my previous questions.

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