Chap.19 Behavior MCQs

 

1.	Behavior
2.	The cyclic phenomenon which recurs eachb day, each lunar month, each day is: (a) Rhythms                 (b) Biological Rhythms (c) Circadian Rhythms (d) All of them	B
3.	The repeated sequence of events, which occurs at about 24 hours interval: (a) Biological Rhythms            (b) Circadian Rhythms (c) Botha and b                        (d) None of them	B
4.	The animals which are active in the twilight hours: (a) Diurnal                   (b) Nocturnal (o) Corpuscular                        (d) Both b and c
5.	An innate mechanism in living organisms that controls the periodicity of many physiological functions: (a) Body Clock                        (b) Wall Clock (c) Biological Clock     (d) None of them
6.	Heritable, intrinsic, stereotypic, inflexible and consummate, the behavior will be: (a) Instinctive               (b) Innate (c) Shapping                (d) Botha and b	D
7.	Catalogue of behavior or actions exhibited by animal used in ethology: (a) Picogram                (b) Microgram (c) Milligram                (d) Ethogram	D
8.	The most basic unit of innate behavior is (a) Action                    (b) Response (c) Arc                         (d) Reflex	D
9.	Orthokinesis and  klinokinesis are concerned with:. (a) Learning                 (b) Orientation Behavior (c) Tropic Movement   (d) Habituation	B
10.	Non heritable, Extrinsic, Permutable, adaptable and progressive the behavior will be: (a) Learning                 (b) Innate (c) Oriental                  (d) Imprinting	A
11.	Innate behaviour is all but: (a) Heritable                 (b) Intrinsic (c) Stereotypic             (d) Flexible	D
12.	Trial and error learning has no role in: (a) Operant Learning    (b) Classical Conditioning (c) Insight                    (d) Imprinting	C
13.	Which is non-directed orientation? (a) Taxis                      (b) Kinesis (c) Tropism                  (d) Imprinting	B
14.	Innate behaviour is all except: (a) Coded in DNA (b) Modified in individual's life span (c) Modified with species evolution (d) Programmed responses to external stimuli	B
15.	Advantage of pecking orders is to: (a) Avoid injury to the stronger animals (b) Protect territory (e) Find suitable mate (d) Assign specific role to individual subordinates	A
16.	Imprinting was studied by: (a) Timbergen              (b) Skinner (c) Lorenz                    (d) Pavlov	C
17.	A sophisticated process in which the responses of the organism are modified as a result of experience is called: (a) Habituation             (b) Imprinting (c) Conditioning           (d) Learning	D
18.	This behaviour reduces an individual's. reproductive fitness while increasing thefitness of the family (a) Altruism                 (b) agonistic behaviour (c) Territoriality           (d) Cooperation	A
19.	……is the learning that occurs during a sensitive or critical period in early life and is irreversible for the length of the period. (a) Habituation (b) Operant Conditioning (c) Trial and Error Learning (d) Imprinting	C
20.	The study of animal behaviour is called: (a) Ethnology               (b) Ethology (c) Gerontology                       (d) Entomology	B
21.	"Mary had a little lamb, its fleece was white as snow. And everywhere that Mary went, the lamb was sure to go". The behaviour of the lamb is best described as (a) Habituation             (b) Imprinting © Insight Learning       (d) Classical Conditioning	A
22.	Animals that help other animals are expected to be (a) Stronger than other animals (b) Male (c) Female (d) Related to the animals they help	D
23.	An animal that sacrifices itself for its relatives is exhibiting: (a) Operant conditioning          (b) Kin selection (c) Imprinting                           (d) Habituation	B
24.	Humans ignoring night sounds while asleep: (a) Classical Conditioning        (b) Habituation (c) Operant Conditioning         (d) Imprinting	B
25.	Response of an organism to stimuli is called: (a) Reaction                             (b) Behaviour (c) Feedback Mechanism         (d) None of these	B
26.	Principles of natural selection are applicable to behaviour as well as physical characteristics .This was persuaded by: (a) Darwin                   (b) Morgan (c) De Vries.                (d) Galton	D
27.	Any regularly occurring sequence of events in an organism is called: (a) Behaviour               (b) Evolution (c) Biological Rhythm  (d) None of these	C
28.	Circadian rhythms appear to be repeated         sequences of events, which occur at ab0ut (a) One Month Interval            (b) One Year Interval (c) 24 Hours Interval   (d) One Season Interval	C
29.	In the liver of rabbit and mouse, deposition and utilization of glycogen is: (a) Nocturnal               (b) Corpuscular (c) Diurnal                   (d) Monthly
30.	Activities are adapted to the regularly recurring changes in the external conditions by means of: (a) Central Nervous System     (b) Biological Rhythms (c) Biological Clock                 (d) Behavioural Modification	C
31.	In an experiment, four feeding tables were set up 50 meters to the north west, north east, south west and south east. The bees were released in the morning. Majority of them New to the feeding table to the: (a) North West                         (b) North East (c) South West                         (d) South East	A
32.	All of the following are the characteristics of innate behaviour except (a) Innate responses are built in nervous system during development (b) Innate behaviour has survival value for the species (c) This behaviour is automatic and machine like (d) Innate responses are forgotten	D
33.	Individuals inherit a suit of behaviors often called: (a) Electrocardiogram              (b) Ethogram (c) Traits                                  (d) Inheritance	B
34.	One of the following is in example of a complex unlearned behaviour: (a) Web formation by spider (b) Migration of birds. (Human sucking reflex (d) Flight of honey bees towards flowers	D
35.	Patellar reflex is also called (a) Muscle Contraction                        (b) Imprinting () Knee Jerk                             (d) Habituation	C
36.	Some animals show a decrease in activity and metabolism during winter (a) Aestivation             (b) Hibernation (c) Anhydrobiosis        (d) Dispersal	B
37.	Change in the speed of movement is called: (a) Orthokinesis                       (b) Klinokinesis (c) Geotropism             (d) Taxis	A
38.	Coordinated movement that occurs in response to an external stimulus is called: (a) Learning                 (b) Reflex (c) Orientation             (d) None of these	C
39.	Pavlov worked on: (a) Classical Conditioning        (b) Instrumental Learning (c) Imprinting                           (d) Insight Learning	A
40.	Cockroaches learn to run through a simple maze to find food. This is an example of: (a) Habituation             (b) Insight Learning (c) Imprinting               (d) Instrumental learning	A
41.	A type of learning that uses reason,especially to form conclusions, inferences or judgments to solve a problem is called: (a) Operant conditioning          (b) Classical conditioning (c) Insight learning                   (d) Habituation	A
42.	A cow touches an electric fence and gets a shock. Thereafter it avoids the fence. This is an example of: (a) Classical conditioning (b) Instrumental conditioning (-ve enforcement) (c) Instrumental conditioning (+ve enforcement) (d) Innate behavior	B
43.	Insight learning was studied by (a) Skinner                   (b) Konrad Lorenz (c) Kohler                    (d) Thorndike.	C
44.	Relatively asocial animals include: (a) Ants                                    (b) Termites (c) Mosquitoes             (d) Bees	C
45.	Troops of spider monkeys traveling together and feeding throughout the day within a core area of their territory is an example of: (a) Aggression                          (b) Dominance Hierarchies (c) Territorial Behaviour          (d) Agonistic Behaviour.	D