Animal Intelligence Practice questions

List at least 4 traits or characteristics that intelligence is based on.

Answer explanation

Communication

Reasoning

Memory

Problem solving

Ability to learn

Self awareness

What animal did you write an essay about and what was the most interesting thing you learned in your research?

What is behavior?

• The way an animal thinks.

• The way an animal responds to a stimulus.

• The way an animal feels or their emotions.

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Which of the following is an example of an internal stimulus?

• The smell of food.

• The sight of a predator.

• The mating call of a bird.

• An increase in body temperature.

What does innate mean?

• It is genetically based.

• It is based on past experience.

• It is learned from another member of the same species.

A goose rolling an egg back into the nest is an example of

• Learned behavior.

• Fixed action pattern.

• Experience.

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Which of the following are examples of learned behaviors? CHOOSE 4

Habituation. Innate behavior. Conditioning. Imprinting. Fixed action pattern. Cognitive behavior.

Answer explanation

Habituation

Conditioning

Imprinting

Cognitive behavior

What is the decrease in an animal's response after repeatedly being exposed to a stimulus that has not positive or negative effects?

• Cognitive behavior

• Conditioning

• Habituation

• Imprinting

When an animal associates between two random stimuli because of past experience (ex. dog salivating when they hear a bell) it is called_________

• Cognitive behavior

• Conditioning

• Habituation

• Imprinting

If a bird eats a butterfly and gets sick and then avoids eating other butterflies of the same color it is an example of_____________

• Cognitive behavior

• Conditioning

• Habituation

• Imprinting