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There are 3 foci or themes that will appear throughout this course. Select one
that will NOT be covered in this course. - CORRECT ANSWERS -
Appropriate methods for training your dog and cat.
In many non-Western cultures, non-human animals are - CORRECT
ANSWERS - incorporated into their spiritual or religious beliefs
There are 3 common types of symbioses - CORRECT ANSWERS -
mutualism, commensalism, parasitism
Because for millions of years our ancestors' survival depended on recognizing
the potential danger and also food value of animals - CORRECT ANSWERS -
our brains' visual system evolved to quickly and efficiently recognize animals
As described in the textbook (Intro & Chapter 1), humans generally place
animals into different categories according to their use. However some animals
can have multiple uses and thus can fall into multiple cultural categories. For
example, in the United States pigs are considered food and sometimes also pets.
In other countries, such as ______________ dogs are considered pets and also
food. - CORRECT ANSWERS - South Korea
The approach taken in this course to understand the complexity of our
relationships to non-human animals ...a)
all choices are correct
,b)
examines how these relationships have developed over time, geographic region,
and cultural contexts
c)
is multi-disciplinary
d)
is based on scientific evidence - CORRECT ANSWERS - all choices are
correct
The "human-animal" distinction - CORRECT ANSWERS - likely originated
with the domestication of animals, and subsequently justified by Western
philosophers
One way to describe and understand the biological connection between humans
and other animals is - CORRECT ANSWERS - as types of ecological
interrelationships
People of different cultures put non-human animals into different categories or
groupings. These categories primarily reflect - CORRECT ANSWERS - how
the animal(s) are used
,Anthropomorphism is - CORRECT ANSWERS - the attribution of human
mental states (thoughts, feeling, motivations and beliefs) to nonhuman animals
or objects
According to the textbook Chapter 2, at approximately what point in time (and
among what Hominin) did cave paintings of animals begin to appear? (Note:
BP=before present) - CORRECT ANSWERS - 40,000 BP among Homo
sapiens
What drove ancestral humans to spread out of Africa? - CORRECT
ANSWERS - Population expansion and the need for large hunting territories
When did our ancestors first start making tools according to archaeological
evidence? (Note: mya= million years ago) - CORRECT ANSWERS - ~2.5
mya
Evidence for the "savanna hypothesis" includes (select all that apply): -
CORRECT ANSWERS - US East Coast children under 12 prefer savanna
settings over familiar natural settings, though they have not experienced a
savanna
Nigerian children who grew up in rainforest settings, still preferred savanna
landscapes
Grassland deer mice prefer grassland over forest habitat, even if reared in the
laboratory
, The "Sally-Anne False Belief" test
a)
is easily mastered by older children
b)
all choices are correct
c)
involves two child characters names Sally and Anne
d)
is used by developmental psychologists as a measure of "theory of mind"
capacity - CORRECT ANSWERS - All choices are correct
Anatomically modern humans Homo sapiens eventually spread throughout the
world, originating from - CORRECT ANSWERS - Africa about 100,000 years
before present
Described in Chapter 2, The archeologist Stephen Mithen has argued that the
capacity to read an animal's mind, to see the world from an animal's perspective,
first appeared in fully modern humans. In Mithen's view, earlier pre-modern
ancestral humans, although successful hunters, - CORRECT ANSWERS -
used mind reading only for other humans but not for other animals
Evidence that suggests an early mutualism between humans and dogs began
around 40,000 BP (between 44,000-26,000 BP) includes