The survival of organisms best suited to a particular environment is known as:

Related Mcqs:

1. Darwin suggested that organisms that adapt to their environment would produce more offspring. this is known as:

   A. Variation
   B. Evolution
   C. Habituation
   D. Natural selection

2. Currently a large proportion of the Pakistani populations overweight. Dr. Laeeq thinks that, in part, this may be due to an innate preference for foods that are rich in fats and suggested that in times Laeeq has suggested that in times when foods were not so readily available, this innate preference would ensure enough calories for energy and ensure enough calories for energy and survival Dr. Laeeq’s views are most consistent with those of the

   A. evolutionary perspective in psychology
   B. behavioral perspective in psychology
   C. biological perspective in psychology
   D. cognitive perspective in psychology

3. Professor Crisman believes that most women prefer tall and physically strong partners because this preference enhanced the survival of our ancestors genes. This viewpoint best illustrates the _______________ perspective.

   A. Cognitive
   B. behavioral
   C. psychodynamic
   D. evolutionary

4. The percentage of people who report being a victim of particular sort of crime in the previous year is known as the_____rate, as it opposed to the frequency of crimes being committed in one year which is known as______rates.

   A. prevalence; prevalence
   B. victim; criminal
   C. incidence; prevalence
   D. prevalence; incidence

5. The powerful survival impulse that leads human infants to seek closeness to their parents is called ___________________?

   A. attachment
   B. imprinting
   C. egocentrism
   D. conservation

6. How many functional requirements Talcott Parsons claimed for the survival of society:

   A. Three
   B. Four
   C. Six
   D. Eight

7. The orbitofrontal cortex: 1: Has critical implications for survival. 2: Serves a reward-decoding function. 3: Plays a very important role in emotion. 4: Is not involved in learning which stimuli are foods.

   A. 1,2 & 3
   B. 1 & 4
   C. 2,3 & 4
   D. 2 & 3

8. The tendency for us to blame people and underestimate the environment for causing behavior is known as the:

   A. Self-serving bias
   B. Balance principle
   C. Cognitive dissonance model
   D. Fundamental attribution error

9. The age at which most people show a particular level of physical or mental development is known as the:

   A. Normative age
   B. Chronological age
   C. Developmental age
   D. Mental age

10. A collection of responses that are predetermined by the inheritance of specific nerve or cytoplasmic pathways in multicellular or unicellular organisms is:

    A. Innate behaviour
    B. learned behaviour
    C. Conditioned reflex type I
    D. None of these