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The first explanation is correct, but the second is incorrect
The first explanation refers to proximate causation, whereas the second refers to ultimate causation
The first explanation is biological, whereas the second is philosophical
The first explanation is testable as a scientific hypothesis, whereas the second is not
Both explanations are reasonable and simply represent a difference of opinion
It announces to the males that she is in heat
Female cats that did this in the past attracted more males
It is a result of hormonal changes associated with her reproductive cycle
The female cat learned the behavior from observing other cats
The males have learned to recognize the specific odor of the urine of a female in heat
When the males smelled the odor, various neurons in their brains were stimulated
Male cats respond to the odor because it is a means of locating females in heat
Male cats' hormones are triggered by the odor released by the female
The odor serves as a releaser for the instinctive behavior of the males
A cat kills a mouse to obtain food
A male sheep fights with another male because it helps it to improve its social position and find a mate
A female bird lays its eggs because the amount of daylight is decreasing slightly each day
A goose squats and freezes motionless because that behavior helps it to escape a predator
A cockroach runs into a crack in the wall and avoids being stepped on
A male robin attacks a red tennis ball because it resembles the breast of another male
A male robin attacks a red tennis ball because hormonal changes in spring increase its aggression
A male robin attacks a red tennis ball because a part of its brain is stimulated by red objects
A male robin attacks a red tennis ball because several times in the past red tennis balls have been thrown at it, and it has learned that they are dangerous
A male robin attacks a red tennis ball because it confuses it with an encroaching male who will steal its territory
Hormones
Evolution
Sexuality
Pheromones
The nervous system
Watson, Crick, and Franklin
McClintock, Goodall, and Lyon
Fossey, Hershey, and Chase
Von Frisch, Lorenz, and Tinbergen
Hardy, Weinberg, and Castle
A pheromone
A sign stimulus
A fixed action pattern
A search image
An imprint stimulus
They are highly stereotyped, instinctive behaviors
They are triggered by sign stimuli in the environment and, once begun, are continued to completion
An inappropriate stimulus can sometimes trigger them
Visual
Auditory
Chemical
Olfactory
Visual
Auditory
Tactile
Electrical
Olfactory
Visual
Auditory
Tactile
Electrical
Olfactory
Visual
Auditory
Tactile
Electrical
A marker
An inducer
A pheromone
An imprinter
An agonistic chemical
E.O. Wilson
Jane Goodall
J.B.S. Haldane
Niko Tinbergen
William Hamilton
Karl von Frisch
Niko Tinbergen
Konrad Lorenz
William Hamilton
Ivan Pavlov
Karl von Frisch
Niko Tinbergen
Konrad Lorenz
William Hamilton
Ivan Pavlov
The males learn to associate the sound with females.
Copulation is a fixed action pattern, and the female flight sound is a sign stimulus that initiates it.
The sound from the earphone irritates the male mosquitoes, causing them to attempt to sting it.
The reproductive drive is so strong that when males are deprived of females, they will attempt to mate with anything that has even the slightest female characteristic.
Through classical conditioning, the male mosquitoes have associated the inappropriate stimulus from the earphone with the normal response of copulation
A defective gene
Trail-and-error learning
Misdirected response to a sign stimulus
Natural behavioral variation in the mayfly population
Insecticide poisoning
Window of imprinting
Major period
Sensitive period
Timing imprint
Significant window
It may be triggered by visual or chemical stimuli
It happens to many adult animals, but not to their young
It is a type of learning that does not involve innate behavior
It occurs only in birds
It causes behaviors that last for only a short time (the sensitive period)
Insight
Imprinting
Habituation
Operant conditioning
Trial-and-error learning
Taxis
Tropism
Kinesis
Cognition
Net reflex
Taxis
Learned behavior
Migration
Visual communication
Operant conditioning
Adapting
Spacing
Conditioning
Imprinting
Habituation