An organism’s drive to reach a state of equilibrium is known as:

Related Mcqs:

1. The human organism is extremely_____environmental factors that can affect the organism include all the persons, objects, situations, and conditions that constitute the external would of any living individual:

   A. Complex
   B. simple
   C. Coward
   D. Social

2. The smallest, weakest stimulus that an organism can detect is known as the_______threshold.

   A. Difference
   B. Theoretical
   C. Obtained
   D. Absolute

3. The outward appearance and repertory of behaviors of an organism is known as the:

   A. Environment
   B. Phenotype
   C. Genotype
   D. Habitat

4. In Wolfgang Kohler’s experiments, a chimp is put in a cage containing three boxes and a banana suspended high above the animal’s head. After first trying to jump up to reach the banana, the chimp looks around them then stacks the three boxes so it can climb up to the banana. This is an example of _____________?

   A. trial and error
   B. latent learning
   C. insight learning
   D. shaping

5. According to Wolfgang Kohler, when one of his chimps fastened two sticks together to reach a bunch of bananas, it was showing an evidence of _________________?

   A. trial-and-error learning
   B. a fixed-action pattern
   C. instinctual drift
   D. insight

6. In wolfgang Kohler’s experiment, the chimpanzee Sultan retrieved a long stick with a short stick to retrieve a piece of fruit. Sultan was able to reach the fruit as a result of:

   A. trial and error
   B. a fixation
   C. artificial intelligence
   D. insight

7. A change in the structure of a gene that leads to minor of major changes in an organism’s physical constitution is ____________?

   A. mitosis
   B. meiosis
   C. parthenogenesis
   D. mutation

8. Under which of the following reinforcement schedules is it most important for an organism to learn to estimate time accurately?

   A. fixed ratio
   B. variable interval
   C. variable ratio
   D. fixed interval

9. Not every organism will learn at the same rate as a result of:

   A. Contiguity and conditioning
   B. Habituation and contiguity
   C. Blocking and preparedness
   D. Blocking and autoshaping
   E. Preparedness and conditioning

10. In evolutionary theory, __________________ refers to the reproductive success of an individual organism relative to the average reproductive success in the population.

    A. natural selection
    B. gene flow
    C. adaptation
    D. fitness