Which of the following statements about learning and behavior is correct?

A) Operant conditioning involves associating a behavior with a reward or punishment.

B) Associative learning involves linking one stimulus with another.

C) Behavior can be modified by learning, but some apparent learning is due to maturation.

D) Imprinting is a learned behavior with an innate component acquired during a sensitive period.

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#Section 2: Evolution

Which of the following is a behavioral pattern that results from a proximate cause?

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#Section 2: Evolution

The body weight of offspring of bird species is range between 12 gm to 18 gm. In a laboratory experiment, species was subjected to selection pressure having influence on the offspring body weight. After many generations of experimental selection pressure, the body weight range between 16 gm to 24 gm. Which of the following natural selection operate on this species?

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#Section 2: Evolution

Ichthyosaurs were aquatic dinosaurs. Fossils show us that they had dorsal fins and tails, as do fish, even though their closest relatives were terrestrial reptiles that had neither dorsal fins nor aquatic tails. The dorsal fins and tails of ichthyosaurs and fish are

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#Section 2: Evolution

The experimental approach taken in current biological investigations presumes that

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#Section 4: Behavioural Ecology

In the Lotka-Volterra population models for predator and prey, what is the consequence of an increased birth rate of prey?