Konrad Lorenz documented a range of what kind of activity in the animal kingdom?

Related Mcqs:

1. Males have been found to differ slightly from females in three well-documented areas of mental abilities. Which of the following is not one of these?

   A. verbal ability
   B. mathematical ability
   C. intelligence
   D. visual-spatial abilities

2. Which TWO of the following are true of the learning set procedure?
   1:The animals learns to focus on classes of cues that are inaccurate predictors of reward
   2:In the win-stay, lose-shift strategy, the animal learns to persist with a choice that yields food, but shift to the other object if it does not
   3:In the learning-set procedure, all stimuli and associations have equal effect on the animal’s behaviour
   4:The occurrence of reward can be regarded as a stimulus that can enter into associations or acquire discriminative control over an instrumental action

   A. 1 & 2
   B. 2 & 3
   C. 1 & 3
   D. 2 & 4

3. After an animal is allowed to copulate until it has no further interest, it will resume sexual activity when a new partner is provided. This is called:

   A. a stimulus need
   B. a curiosity drive
   C. the Coolidge effect
   D. an episodic drive

4. Which branch of psychology deals with the study of animal behaviour?

   A. Social Psychology
   B. Comparative Psychology
   C. Abnormal Psychology
   d. Differential Psychology

5. In Wolfgang Kohler’s experiments, a chimp is put in a cage containing three boxes and a banana suspended high above the animal’s head. After first trying to jump up to reach the banana, the chimp looks around them then stacks the three boxes so it can climb up to the banana. This is an example of _____________?

   A. trial and error
   B. latent learning
   C. insight learning
   D. shaping

6. It is easier to see a camouflaged animal when it moves than when it stays still. This illustrates the Gestalt principle of ______________?

   A. closure
   B. proximity
   C. similarity
   D. common movement

7. Animal intelligence was a major work written by __________________?

   A. Hull
   B. Thorndike
   C. Skinner
   D. Watson

8. Man is social animal” who said:

   A. Aristotle
   B. Ibne-i-Khaldun
   C. Max Weber
   D. Al-Ghazali

9. Which of the following events would most likely cause an animal to overeat and become obese?

   A. lowering its set point
   B. destruction of its lateral hypothalamus
   C. destruction of its ventromedial hypothalamus
   D. stimulation of its ventromedial hypothalamus

10. The behaviour that depends on the experiences in one’s own life but for this to occur depends upon the development and evolution of the nervous system of that animal is:

    A. Taxis
    B. Kinesis
    C. Reflex
    D. Learning