Anthrozoology Key Terms

Mechanistic means:

• Animals have the capacity to feel emotion

• Animals are automatic and do not feel pain or emotions

• Animals have the capacity to feel physical pain

• Animals have the capacity to feel pain and emotion

Animism means:

• The attribution of living souls to plants, inanimate objects, and natural phenomena.

• The attribution of living souls to animals

• The attribution of living souls to plants and animals

Anthropocentrism means:

• Humans are equal in moral status to animals

• Humans are above the moral status of animals

• Humans are below the moral status of animals

Ecosentrism means:

• Humans are equal to animals

• Humans are equal to all other living organisms

• Humans are equal to mammals

E. O. Wilson's Biophilia hypothesis asserts:

• humans have no innate urge to affiliate with other forms of life

• humans have an innate urge to affiliate with mammals but not other less-related species

• humans have an innate urge to affiliate with other forms of life

K. Lorenze's "cute response" hypothesis asserts that:

• infantile features do not play a role in the human-animal bond

• certain infantile features trigger a nurturing response in adults

• small animals trigger a nurturing response in adults

• fury or "soft" animals trigger a nurturing response in adults

Humans have co-evolved with which domesticated animal?

• Sheep

• The domesticated dog

• Chicken

• Goats

The wolf was the first animal to be domesticated...

• between 18,800-32,100 years ago

• between 80,200- 85,000 years ago

• between 1 and 2 million years ago

• between 50,000-65,800 years ago

The development of agriculture significantly shaped human civilization because:

• Humans were less dependent on the climate

• Humans were able to migrate

• Humans were able to settle

Oxytocin (AKA the "Love Hormone") is released through...

• Touch

• Gaze

• Touch and gaze