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Multiple Choice Quiz

1
Examining chimpanzees to understand aspects of human behavior is called:
A)Behavioral ecology
B)Comparative primatology
C)Primate morphology
D)Primate ecology
2
Which term refers to all apes and humans?
A)Simiiformes
B)Anthropoids
C)Hominoids
D)Hominins
3
What does comparative primatology look for?
A)Primate-wide trends
B)Hominoid-wide trends
C)Unique hominin characteristics
D)All of the above
4
A researcher follows a single organism and takes little snapshots of behavior every five minutes for a week. What is this an example of?
A)Quantitative methodology
B)Qualitative methodology
C)Phylogeny
D)All of the above
5
When you are at home and hungry, you go to the refrigerator or cupboard and select specific items to consume. Food preferences and knowing where to go for food are learned behavior patterns. This viewpoint reflects which of the following approaches?
A)Phylogeny
B)Proximate stimulus
C)Ontogeny
D)Function of behavior
6
What is behavioral ecology?
A)The study of behavior from ecological and evolutionary perspectives
B)The study of how organisms interact with their environment
C)The study of behavior in different environments
D)The study of primates for the purpose of understanding human behavior
7
What type of socioecological pressure refers to how an organism forages?
A)Competition
B)Locomotion
C)Predation
D)Nutrition
8
What is a behavior pattern that becomes very prominent in a population as a result of natural selection?
A)Genetic drift
B)Fitness preference
C)Strategy
D)Altruism
9
Which of the following is NOT considered a general behavioral pattern in living primates?
A)Communication through symbols
B)Cooperation and conflict
C)Disruptive selection
D)Hierarchies and dominance
10
If individual primates are frequently in close spatial association, we can say they have a(n) __________ relationship.
A)agnostic
B)affiliative
C)philopatric
D)dominant
11
What are clusters of females and young macaques huddling together, grooming one another, and occasionally fighting called?
A)Multifemale groups
B)Matrifocal units
C)Matriarchies
D)Multifemale gatherings
12
Chimpanzee communities are characterized by which type of social pattern?
A)Multifemale/multimale
B)Subgroup
C)Fission-fusion
D)Mother-offspring
13
Which of the following behaviors is shared by both humans and macaques?
A)The importance of biological kin in social interactions
B)Adult males and females have very different life trajectories
C)Large and complex social organization
D)All of the above
14
In general, anthropologists agree the following behaviors are shared by both humans and chimpanzees EXCEPT:
A)Community living
B)Use of sex
C)Mate guarding
D)Male-male bonding
15
Why is it sometimes difficult to make direct comparisons between human behavior and the behavior of other organisms?
A)Human culture affects both behavior and morphology.
B)Humans are substantially more advanced than other organisms.
C)Humans cannot conduct research on human behavior.
D)The human population has expanded more dramatically than any other organisms' population.





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