A. Instinct
B. Taxis
C. Kinesis
D. All of these
Related Mcqs:
- According to Darwin a behaviour made up of units compatible with the mechanisms of inheritance and thus a products of natural selection is:
A. Instinct
B. Taxis
C. Kinesis
D. All of these - One of the Darwin’s key ideas is that, because of natural selection, animals have an inborn tendency to behave in ways that ____________?
A. require the lowest energy expenditure
B. they individually select from various natural alternative
C. they learn from their parents
D. help them to survive and reproduce - Charles Darwin’s concept of natural selection is most important for which of the following general perspectives in psychology?
A. functionalism
B. structuralism
C. reflexology
D. psychoanalysis - According to Darwin, the variation in behaviour passed from one generation to next generation is due to _________?
A. Selection
B. Cultural Changes
C. Inheritance
D. None of the above - An extremely complex behaviour that includes biological rhythms, territorial behaviour, courtship, mating, aggression, altruism and social organizations is:
A. Instincts or Reflexes
B. Innate behaviour
C. Kinesis
D. All of the above - Which one of the following statements are true of the Wason selection, or four-card problem (Wason,1966)?
1. The Wason Selection Task is a good task because it produces identical results in concrete and abstract forms
2. In general, concrete versions of the task are more difficult to think about than uncluttered abstract versions.
3. Although the task is one of pure reasoning some concrete versions are easier because of how we think in certain social situations.
4. People typically pick one card correctly, but pick an inappropriate one as the second choice in the original version of the task.A. 1 & 2
B. 3 & 4
C. 1 & 4
D. 2 & 3 - Which one of the following approaches tries to analyze human behaviour in terms of stimulus-response units acquired through the process of learning, mainly through instrumental conditioning ?
A. Cognitive Approach
B. Dynamic and Psychoanalytic Approach
C. Stimulus-Response Behaviouristic Approach
D. Existential Approach - Who defined ‘culture trait’ as a repeatedly irreducible unit of learned behaviour pattern or material product there of?
A. Clark Wissler
B. K. Popper
C. Frazer
D. Hoebel - When a child modifies an existing cognitive schema to make it compatible with the cognitive aspects of an incoming stimulus, the process is called _____________?
A. assimilation
B. adaptation
C. conservation
D. accommodation - 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