Las ratas tienen frio
Kirsten Verster ZOO4926
TEST CORRECTIONS
TRUE OR FALSE
1. The practice of testing multiple predictions of multiple alternative hypotheses is called Strong Inference. TRUE!
2. The Adaptive Decision Making Model of motivation (or behavior) states that the external cues and internal hormone levels integrate to cause a behavior. FALSE! This is the traditional drive model of behavior.
3. Since black-throated blue warblers are known to learn their songs, this means that song differences between birds from Maine and Connecticut did not evolve. FALSE! Just because songs are learned does not mean they did not evolve. Learned behaviors are not entirely inflexible; the warblers can change their song over time.
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. The challenge hypothesis describes which of the following? That hormone levels are a reflection of the external environment.
2. Which of the following are steps in the hypothetico-deductive method? Induction, retroduction, deduction
3. Which of the following are serious problems with the Drive model of behavior? The lack of a physiological correlate of drive, not all behaviors show build up and release
14. ESSAY
There is little evolutionary logic behind this question. Evolutionary natural selection acts on the individual and (in a more modern viewpoint) on the genes. Each is individual is out to propagate itself as much as possible - a drive responsible for that organism being alive in the first place. Even most ‘altruism’ is considered to have a selfish component (kin selection, reciprocity). To argue that the individual lemmings are acting as population control agents is advocating a form of group selection. Group selection is an idea in evolution that, since its introduction, has generated a great deal of controversy. It posits that behaviors may spread if they ultimately benefit the group, even if it reduces the fitness of an individual. By saying that the individual lemmings are offing themselves to allocate more resources to their peers is suggesting group selection is at work - implying that the voles, or evolution, has foresight. A more reasonable explanation for this bizarre behavior is that, given the high densities, it is difficult for the voles to find mating partners, since they are all ‘taken’ (rearing children, a time when they are not sexually receptive). By eating the children, the male vole ensures that the female will sooner be sexually receptive and will be able to put all of her resources into the new child he is fathering, not the old one he likely did not father.
TEST CORRECTIONS
TRUE OR FALSE
1. The practice of testing multiple predictions of multiple alternative hypotheses is called Strong Inference. TRUE!
2. The Adaptive Decision Making Model of motivation (or behavior) states that the external cues and internal hormone levels integrate to cause a behavior. FALSE! This is the traditional drive model of behavior.
3. Since black-throated blue warblers are known to learn their songs, this means that song differences between birds from Maine and Connecticut did not evolve. FALSE! Just because songs are learned does not mean they did not evolve. Learned behaviors are not entirely inflexible; the warblers can change their song over time.
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. The challenge hypothesis describes which of the following? That hormone levels are a reflection of the external environment.
2. Which of the following are steps in the hypothetico-deductive method? Induction, retroduction, deduction
3. Which of the following are serious problems with the Drive model of behavior? The lack of a physiological correlate of drive, not all behaviors show build up and release
14. ESSAY
There is little evolutionary logic behind this question. Evolutionary natural selection acts on the individual and (in a more modern viewpoint) on the genes. Each is individual is out to propagate itself as much as possible - a drive responsible for that organism being alive in the first place. Even most ‘altruism’ is considered to have a selfish component (kin selection, reciprocity). To argue that the individual lemmings are acting as population control agents is advocating a form of group selection. Group selection is an idea in evolution that, since its introduction, has generated a great deal of controversy. It posits that behaviors may spread if they ultimately benefit the group, even if it reduces the fitness of an individual. By saying that the individual lemmings are offing themselves to allocate more resources to their peers is suggesting group selection is at work - implying that the voles, or evolution, has foresight. A more reasonable explanation for this bizarre behavior is that, given the high densities, it is difficult for the voles to find mating partners, since they are all ‘taken’ (rearing children, a time when they are not sexually receptive). By eating the children, the male vole ensures that the female will sooner be sexually receptive and will be able to put all of her resources into the new child he is fathering, not the old one he likely did not father.