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Learning: Principles and Applications, 4/e
Stephen B Klein, Mississippi State University
The Modification Of Instinctive Behavior
True or False
1
According to Lorenz, the predisposition to learn from experience is genetically based.
A)
TRUE
B)
FALSE
2
In Lorenz's model, instinctive behavior can be modified by experience.
A)
TRUE
B)
FALSE
3
Once habituated to a stimulus, the habituated response is unlikely to return.
A)
TRUE
B)
FALSE
4
Experienced skydivers sometimes become severely depressed when a jump is cancelled.
A)
TRUE
B)
FALSE
5
Exposure to a novel context can result in dishabituation.
A)
TRUE
B)
FALSE
6
Research has failed to find any flaws in the Lorenz-Tinbergen hypothetical energy system.
A)
TRUE
B)
FALSE
7
A person who whistles nervously before a "date" may be engaging in displacement, similar to that exhibited by the male stickleback.
A)
TRUE
B)
FALSE
8
The particular sign stimulus necessary to elicit a fixed action pattern varies with the circumstance.
A)
TRUE
B)
FALSE
9
Animals tend to ravenously devour new foods. This is known as ingestional neophobia.
A)
TRUE
B)
FALSE
10
Habituation is most easily established when a person or animal is in a high state of arousal.
A)
TRUE
B)
FALSE
11
Although generally transient, habituation can be a long-term phenomenon.
A)
TRUE
B)
FALSE
12
Situations other than the presence of the A state can elicit the B state.
A)
TRUE
B)
FALSE
13
Instinctive systems are inherently inflexible or unchangeable.
A)
TRUE
B)
FALSE
14
Sensitization is always a short-lived or transient phenomenon.
A)
TRUE
B)
FALSE
15
When a stimulus is repeated extensively, habituation is inevitable.
A)
TRUE
B)
FALSE
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