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Chapter 12 Self-test questions
Communication
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Which of the following statements about communication is
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Communication involves the transfer of information from a sender to a receiver.
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Signals serve as vehicles for the information transfer from a sender to a receiver.
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True communication benefits both the sender and the receiver.
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Upon detection, the signal transmitted by the sender invokes in the receiver an immediate behavioral response but does not have a tonic and motivational effect.
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In which of the following situations does the transmission of information from a sender to a receiver
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Display during courtship of an enlarged, brightly colored claw by male fiddler crabs.
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Production of calling song by male crickets to attract females.
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Localization by barn owls of mice that generate noise while walking on ground.
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Attraction of foraging bees by the honey guides of flowers.
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Which of the following instructions is
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Estimate sound intensity from the amplitude of the signal.
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Estimate sound intensity from the intensity of the signal trace on the oscillogram.
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Determine frequency of a periodic signal by counting the number of periodic events over a certain time interval, normalize this number to 1 sec, and take the inverse of the result to obtain the frequency in Hertz.
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Determine the duration of a signal pulse by measuring the time interval between the start of the trace deflection on the screen and the return of the deflected trace to baseline.
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Which physical parameters of an auditory signal are displayed on a sound spectrogram? Please select all that apply.
Frequency.
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Temporal pattern.
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Amplitude.
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Waveform.
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Which of the following organs do crickets use to produce songs?
Forewing.
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Larynx.
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Syrinx.
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Scolopidium.
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Which statement about pressure gradient ears of crickets is
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Sound pressure can reach both the inner and the outer surface of the tympanum.
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The auditory receptor cells that transduce the energy associated with sound pressure into a receptor potential are the inner hair cells.
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Sound pressure ears enable crickets to determine the direction from which sound comes.
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The ears on the two sides of the body are coupled via a tracheal tube.
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Positive phonotaxis involves movements of a receiver towards the source of sound.
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False
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Which of the following newly developed instruments led, in the 1950s, to a dramatic increase in the number of scientific studies that explored how song birds acquire their vocalization?
Electron microscope.
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Radar.
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Sound spectrograph.
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Ultrasound detector.
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Which of the following hypotheses describes best how songs develop in songbirds?
The song structure is determined exclusively by genetic information.
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The song is acquired exclusively through learning from an adult bird that serves as a tutor during a critical phase within the first few months after hatching.
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The song is acquired exclusively through learning from young birds of the same age at the end of the first year of the bird's life.
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The developing song is the result of a combination of innate predisposition and social learning.
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Which of the following statements about HVC in the brain of songbirds is
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HVC is part of the song motor pathway.
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HVC is part of the anterior forebrain pathway.
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HVC receives synaptic input from the robust nucleus of the arcopallium.
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A subpopulation of HVC neurons controls temporal features of the song.
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