Author Question: According to the matching law, in the context of the time it spent outside its own territory, a pied ... (Read 37 times)

gbarreiro · **on:** Jun 21, 2018

According to the matching law, in the context of the time it spent outside its own territory, a pied wagtail should have spent 30 of its time in a meadow when there were fewer insects and 70 of its time in the meadow when there were more insects. In reality, the respective percentages were 40 and 80. What could account for this result?

A) More preferred insects in the meadow
B) More preferred insects in its territory
C) Short travel distance between the two food patches
D) Facing any kind of threat in the meadow

Question 2

Last year, Jacqueline had a psychology course and a physics course. She had more quizzes in the psychology courses and was earning better grades compared to the physics course. She devoted more than half of her study time to psychology last year. This year, she has another psychology course and another physics course. This time she has more quizzes in physics, and her grade is also better in physics. She still spends more than half of her time studying for psychology. According to the matching law, this distribution of effort can be accounted for by _____.

A) self-control
B) COD
C) bias
D) optimization