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| relationship, specific event, behavior |
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| A reflex is a ___ between a ___ and a simple ____. |
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| entire, complex, variable |
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| Modal action patterns differ from reflexes in that MAPs involve the ___ organism and are more ___ and ___. |
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| The chief problem with natural selection is that it is ___ . |
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| Natural selection helps the ___ to adapt to change, not the ___. |
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| Behavior is anything an organism does that can be ___. |
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| A stimulus is an environmental even that is capable of affecting ___. |
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| Habituation involves a ___ in the probability or intensity of a response. |
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| Kuo's experiment showed that whether cats killed rats depended on whether ___. |
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| change, behavior, experience |
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| Learning is a __ in ___ due to ___. |
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| The human fondness for sugar and salt illustrates that behavior that has survival value at one time may be harmful at another time. |
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| The sight of a chick with an open mouth reliably results in an adult bird providing food. This chick's open mouth is an example of a ____. |
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| Evolution is the product of __ and ___. |
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| relationship, event/stimulus |
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| A reflex is a ___ between a specific ___ and a simple response. |
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| One example of a general behavior trait is ___ |
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| ___ is a reduction in the intensity or probability of a reflex response due to repeated exposure to a stimulus that elicits that response. |
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| Learning can be thought of as evolved ___. |
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| The chief limitation of natural selection as a mechanism for coping with change is that it is __. |
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| Darwin likened natural selection to the ___ of animals. |
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| gets steeper, not occurring |
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| If the rate of a behavior is increasing, the slope of the cumulative record ___. A flat record indicates that the behavior is ____. |
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| observations/stories, a particular individual in depth |
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| The chief difference between anecdotal and case study evidence is that anecdotal evidence is based on casual ___, whereas case studies ____. |
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| The essential element of a between-subjects design is that the independent variable varies ___ participants. |
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| The essential element of a within-subject design is that the independent variable varies ___ participants. |
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| heredity/genetics, learning history |
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| One advantage of animal research is that it provides better control of ___ and ____. |
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| The beneficiaries of behavioral research with animals include both ___ and ___. |
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| Computer ____ cannot replace animal research because they are programmed based on findings from animal research. |
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| This text takes the ___ approach to behavior. |
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| One reason that many learning studies use animals is that with animals it is possible to get greater ___ over variables. |
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| T.H. Huxley wrote, "Sit down before fact as _____" |
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| The law of ___ says that the simplest explanation that fits the data is best. |
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| The kind of experiment that can be likened to turning a light switch on and off is an ____ design. |
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| ___ design experiments assume that there are no important differences among participants. |
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| A change in ___ means a change in the form a behavior takes. |
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| ___ is a measure of learning that combines errors and rate. |
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| If there is a reduction in the time that passes before a behavior occurs, we say that learning is measured in terms of ____. |
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| A cumulative record measures learning as a change in the ____ of behavior. |
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