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Test Bank for Learning and Behavior: Active Learning Edition 8e 8th Edition by Paul Chance, Ellen Furlong. ISBN-13: 8116 Full Chapters test bank are included 1. Introduction: Learning to Change. 2. The Study of Learning and Behavior. 3. Pavlovian Conditioning. 4. Pavlovian Applications. 5...

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Chap 01 8e

Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
1. Learning is a biological mechanism.
a. True
b. False

2. Your textbook views learning as a change in the brain that is represented in behavior.
a. True
b. False

3. Some people have genes from Homo neanderthalensis.
a. True
b. False

4. In Darwin’s day, the laws governing inheritance were not generally known.
a. True
b. False

5. All reflexes contribute to survival.
a. True
b. False

6. Learning is a change in behavior due to artificial selection.
a. True
b. False

7. Many species go extinct during periods of extreme climate change due to their environments changing more
quickly than natural selection can act.
a. True
b. False

8. The brown-headed cowbird puts its eggs in other birds’ nests. This is an example of a reflex.
a. True
b. False

9. A stimulus is an environmental event that is capable of affecting behavior.
a. True
b. False

10. It is sometimes difficult to say whether an event is behavior or physiology.
a. True
b. False




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Chap 01 8e

11. Learning, like natural selection, is a biological mechanism for adapting to change.
a. True
b. False

12. The word stimulus always refers to events in an organism’s surroundings.
a. True
b. False

13. The cross-breeding of closely related species is called hybridization.
a. True
b. False

14. The evolution of most species is now complete.
a. True
b. False

15. The evidence from biology suggests that the first “eyes” were not eyes at all, but light-sensitive cells.
a. True
b. False

16. Darwin believed that there were no human instincts.
a. True
b. False

17. Natural selection helps the species adapt to change, not the individual.
a. True
b. False

18. Natural selection helps the individual adapt to changes in its environment.
a. True
b. False

19. Repeated exposure to a stimulus that evokes a reflex response results in habituation.
a. True
b. False

20. The dispute over the relative importance of genetics and learning is often called the evolved modifiability
debate.
a. True
b. False

21. Malthus’s book An Essay on the Principle of Population had a strong influence on Darwin.
a. True
b. False


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