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Can you name the Cognition A?
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Cognition is a mechanism that does what?
acquire information
90.9%
act on information
81.8%
The ability to use multiple cognitive traits at once = ?
intelligence
81.8%
What were the 4 whys?
causation
81.8%
development
81.8%
adaptation
81.8%
evolution
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Who tested if behaviour was heritable?
Drent 2003
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process information
72.7%
storeinformation
72.7%
What bird was used to test if behaviour was heritable?
great tit
72.7%
biological approach
72.7%
Which are proximate mechanisms?
causation and development
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Which are ultimate mechanisms?
adaptation and evolution
72.7%
What can be used to test it?
focal light experiment
63.6%
And what did the results show?
heritable
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What are the 2 approaches?
anthropogenic approach
63.6%
Who used the first approach?
Morgan 1984
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Who uses the second approach?
Tinbergen 1963
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What is the function of bird song?
species recognition
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learning
54.5%
What did Stirling et al 2002 investigate?
behavioural traits
54.5%
life history traits
54.5%
morphological traits
54.5%
swamp sparrow
50%
What things does it include?
perception
45.5%
Cristol et al 1997 studied what?
crows
45.5%
Genner et al 2008 studied what?
male cichlids
45.5%
What species did they use?
song sparrow
45.5%
What was the study investigating?
cars as nutcrackers
36.4%
Individual recognition
36.4%
territorial defences
36.4%
advertisement for mating success
27.3%
Marler 1997 studied what?
song learning
27.3%
What did they discover?
preferentially learnt songs of own species
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