PSYC 2700 BEHAVIOUR AND EVOLUTION MIDTERM 1
QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED ANSWERS
What year was the origin of species by the means of natural selection - Answers - 1859
Who discover Natural selection - Answers - Charles Darwin
Natural selection is the driving factor for - Answers - Adaptation
What didn't Darwin Understand? - Answers - The genetic basis of inheritance
If there is variation in a trait and the variation is heritable and the variation causes
differences in reproduction then - Answers - Traits that promote reproduction( and the
genes that code for them) will increase in the population.
Behavior responds to - Answers - Natural Selection
Animals may have mental processes, what are they? - Answers - Sexual Selection:
male to male competition, female choice
comparative psychology - Answers - Animals as models of human behaviour
Biopsychology - Answers - Genetic and physiological mechanisms of behaviour
evolutionary psychology - Answers - Evolutionary theory applied to human behaviour
Influence on other fields - Answers - Learning, Cognitive constraints
When did ethology become a subject? - Answers - Early 20th century by Darwinians
What is Ethology - Answers - Evolutionary based study on the natural behaviour of wild
animals
Niko Tinbergen 4 causes of Behaviour - Answers - Developmental Mechanism Function
Evolution
First reason as to why Birds sing - Answers - Because they learn from their parents
(ontogenetic)(developmental)
Second reason as to why Birds sing - Answers - Because nervous signals, originating
from the Brain, stimulate the sirnyx (immediate causation) (mechanism)
, Third reasons as to why birds sing - Answers - To attract mates and repel Rivals
(function)(adaptive value)
Fourth reason as to why birds sing in - Answers - Because song evolved in an ancestor
of modern singing birds (Evolution)
Explain the decline of ethology - Answers - Failed to integrate the modern synthesis of
Darwin and Population Genetics. "Good of the Species" logic was flawed
Wilson Sociobiology in 1975 - Answers - Embraced genetics
4 important facts about Behavioral Pscycology - Answers - Expanded scope to all
behaviour, Focus on function(adaptation) Models, hypothesis driven(theory drives
question)
Phycology integrates - Answers - Evolution
Biology integrates ___________________ - Answers - Mechanisms, including learning
Ontogeny(development) and Immediate causation(mechanism) are what kind of causes
- Answers - Proximate(Within lifetime)
Function(adaptive value) and Evolution are what kind of causes - Answers -
Ultimate(over generations)
biological evolution - Answers - The change or properties, or change in gene frequency
of populations over the course of generations
Evolutionary Means - Answers - Unfolding
Evolutions happens at what level - Answers - The population level, not the individual
True of False: The scale of change in evolution is so huge that it is difficult to grasp -
Answers - True
When discussing evolution, what terms do we use in a different way - Answers -
Population and Divergence
Population( in evolutionary terms) - Answers - A Group of potentially interbreed
individuals
Do populations change over time - Answers - Yes
If an adaptive trait emerges within a population ... - Answers - The traits cannot spread
to other populations
QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED ANSWERS
What year was the origin of species by the means of natural selection - Answers - 1859
Who discover Natural selection - Answers - Charles Darwin
Natural selection is the driving factor for - Answers - Adaptation
What didn't Darwin Understand? - Answers - The genetic basis of inheritance
If there is variation in a trait and the variation is heritable and the variation causes
differences in reproduction then - Answers - Traits that promote reproduction( and the
genes that code for them) will increase in the population.
Behavior responds to - Answers - Natural Selection
Animals may have mental processes, what are they? - Answers - Sexual Selection:
male to male competition, female choice
comparative psychology - Answers - Animals as models of human behaviour
Biopsychology - Answers - Genetic and physiological mechanisms of behaviour
evolutionary psychology - Answers - Evolutionary theory applied to human behaviour
Influence on other fields - Answers - Learning, Cognitive constraints
When did ethology become a subject? - Answers - Early 20th century by Darwinians
What is Ethology - Answers - Evolutionary based study on the natural behaviour of wild
animals
Niko Tinbergen 4 causes of Behaviour - Answers - Developmental Mechanism Function
Evolution
First reason as to why Birds sing - Answers - Because they learn from their parents
(ontogenetic)(developmental)
Second reason as to why Birds sing - Answers - Because nervous signals, originating
from the Brain, stimulate the sirnyx (immediate causation) (mechanism)
, Third reasons as to why birds sing - Answers - To attract mates and repel Rivals
(function)(adaptive value)
Fourth reason as to why birds sing in - Answers - Because song evolved in an ancestor
of modern singing birds (Evolution)
Explain the decline of ethology - Answers - Failed to integrate the modern synthesis of
Darwin and Population Genetics. "Good of the Species" logic was flawed
Wilson Sociobiology in 1975 - Answers - Embraced genetics
4 important facts about Behavioral Pscycology - Answers - Expanded scope to all
behaviour, Focus on function(adaptation) Models, hypothesis driven(theory drives
question)
Phycology integrates - Answers - Evolution
Biology integrates ___________________ - Answers - Mechanisms, including learning
Ontogeny(development) and Immediate causation(mechanism) are what kind of causes
- Answers - Proximate(Within lifetime)
Function(adaptive value) and Evolution are what kind of causes - Answers -
Ultimate(over generations)
biological evolution - Answers - The change or properties, or change in gene frequency
of populations over the course of generations
Evolutionary Means - Answers - Unfolding
Evolutions happens at what level - Answers - The population level, not the individual
True of False: The scale of change in evolution is so huge that it is difficult to grasp -
Answers - True
When discussing evolution, what terms do we use in a different way - Answers -
Population and Divergence
Population( in evolutionary terms) - Answers - A Group of potentially interbreed
individuals
Do populations change over time - Answers - Yes
If an adaptive trait emerges within a population ... - Answers - The traits cannot spread
to other populations
