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Cross- fostering experiments with Norway rat pups showed that in their response to stress

A) cross- fostered pups resembled their biological mothers more than their foster mothers.
B) environment was the critical factor,not genetics.
C) genetics was the only important factor.
D) both genetics and the environment played a clear role.

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Squirrels on a bird feeder seem to be able to figure out how to steal seeds no matter what people do to prevent it.Yesterday,Jeremy hung out a new bird feeder design,and sure enough,by the end of the day the squirrels found a way to get to the seeds.The squirrels most likely figured out how to get the seeds through

A) the use of cognitive maps.
B) spatial learning.
C) imprinting.
D) trial- and- error learning.

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Several primates have been taught to communicate with humans using sign language.This supports the view that animals other than humans can learn through the process of

Which of the following is communicated by courtship displays?

Which of the following is an example of a fixed action pattern?

Which of the following behaviors would be unlikely to involve imprinting?

The certainty of paternity is greatest in organisms that

You are told that the song of males among a particular songbird species has an innate component but is also largely learned.Nestling males imprint on their father's song and then sing it themselves when they reach sexual maturity.Which of the following observations would lead you to doubt this information?

The evolutionary explanations for behavior are called the

Agonistic behavior

From a sociobiological perspective,altruism is a behavior that

When you successfully study with the stereo on in the background,you are demonstrating

Which of the following statements about chimpanzee behavior is true?

The sending of,reception of,and response to signals constitute animal

Territories are typically used for activities such as

A big difference between social learning and imprinting is that

A blue jay hides hundreds of nuts throughout the fall and finds them throughout the winter and spring.The blue jay is most likely finding the stored food by using

Which of the following situations represents an example of territorial behavior?

Pecking order in chickens is an example of

In England,at a time when milk was still delivered to doorsteps each morning in foil- capped glass bottles,a songbird called the great tit started pecking through the caps and drinking the cream in the necks of the bottles.This behavior spread through the great tit population in a matter of years.The emergence and spread of this behavior probably depended on