课程名称︰动物行为学
课程性质︰选修
课程教师︰李玲玲
开课学院：生命科学院
开课系所︰生态与演化科学研究所
考试日期（年月日）︰108/01/09
考试时限（分钟）：180
试题 :
1.Define and explain the relationship of the following terms(40)
(1)Sexual difference hypothesis and parental investment
(2)Game theory and payoff matrix
(3)Developmental deprivation and development homeostasis
(4)Reinforcement and punishment
2.Short answers
(1)Draw a figure of the polygyny threshold model.(10)
(2)Name 3 reasons why suprachiasmatic nuclei(SCN) in the hypothalamus is considered a master clock of rhythmic behavior in mammals.(10)
(3)Name 5 methods a scientist can apply to study the genetic basis of behavior.(10)
3.Essays
(1)Based on the differences in adult survival rates due to predation and their strategies of parental cares in the North versus South American birds as shown in Figure A,
please explain the results of changes in their provisioning behavior with an increasing risk of nest versus adult predator as shown in Figure B.(10)
(2)Provide a summary of song development process in white-crown sparrow and develop two behavioral research questions based on this summary.(10)
(3)University students were asked to judge the attractiveness of different versions of faces that had been digitally altered to change the vertical distance between the eyes and mouth as well as the horizontal distance between the eyes.
The students preferred those images in which the relevant vertical distance was about 36% of the face's length and the horizontal distance between the eyes was about 46% of the face's width.
These proportions are those found in average faces. In evolutionary terms, please provide at least two explanations why people prefer faces with average structural features?(10)