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6. Interval timing refers to the ability to

  • anticipate an event one a particular time interval has elapsed
  • all the answers are correct
  • perform an action for a specific duration
  • retrospectively judge which of the two intervals was shorter

7. Predator fear in rodents

  • two answers are correct
  • reduces glucocorticoid production
  • alters dendritic morphology
  • alters ranging patterns

8. Why do male hamadryas baboons intervene in female-female conflicts but male gelada baboons do not?

  • male geladas have no allies in the groups
  • the risk of immigration is higher in female hamadryas baboons
  • geladas live in multi-male-multi-female groups
  • female gelada baboons are more aggressive than female hamadryas

9. Which type of selection is related to reproductive success?

  • natural selection
  • inclusive fitness
  • sexual selection
  • artificial selection

10. At what age is it most appropriate to compare humans and bonobos?

  • different ages
  • two answers are correct
  • functionally equivalent ages
  • same age

11. Dominance hierarchies

  • increase the cost of aggression
  • minimise energy expenditure
  • advertise intentions/motivations
  • minimise resources

12. Homoplasy is

  • completeness
  • extensiveness
  • convergent evolution
  • common descent

13. Injury of __________ disrupts planning abilities.

  • hippocampus
  • cortico-striatal pathway
  • PFC
  • IPS

14. Traits tailored to the current ecological niche occupied by a species is known as

  • adaptive specialisation
  • natural selection
  • inclusive fitness
  • sexual selection

15. Dawkins & Krebs (1979) proposed that

  • prey and predator operate at different stakes because of what they lose when the opponent is succesful
  • larger cortical sensory regions are associated with enhanced discriminative abilities
  • problems are solved by insight, not trial-and-error
  • traits are tailored to the currect ecological niche occupied by a species

16. Female brown-headed cowbirds have a larger hippocampal volume that males to

  • incubate their eggs optimally
  • keep track of multiple nest sites of other birds
  • return to their own nest to feed their chicks
  • cope with their larger home ranges

17. Subsitizing and Object File System are

  • mechanisms of operating on quantities
  • limited to 8 items
  • based on Weber's law
  • precise

18. How did pugs and border collies evolved?

  • sexual selection
  • convergent evolution
  • artificial selection
  • divergent evolution

19. Species merge into a group (e.g. sleeping in one place) or split (e.g. foraging in small groups during the day). What type of social dynamics is this?

  • radial
  • dispearsed
  • fission-fusion
  • cohesive

20. Which of the species can solve the invisible displacement task of the Piagetian series of object permanence

  • dolphin
  • orangutan
  • dog
  • carrion crow