A. Taxis
B. Sign stimulus
C. Kinesis
D. None of these
Related Mcqs:
- Imagine you are a male three-spined stickleback (a fish). You come across a nest of unfertilized three-spined stickleback eggs and you can’t help but do a particular dance and then go ahead and fertilize the eggs. Which theory of motivation accounts for your behavior?
A. Opponent-process
B. Instinct
C. Arousal
D. Behavioral - Research suggests that males exhibit____________than females and that females have a________than males.
A. less cerebral specialization, smaller corpus callosum
B. less cerebral specialization; larger corpus callosum
C. more cerebral specialization; smaller corpus callosum
D. more cerebral specialization; larger corpus callosum - What can we say about aggression in males and females?
A. Women may learn different aggressive strategies from those used by man who are the physically stronger sex
B. Aggression in males may be expressed directly (e.g. fighting) but aggression in females may be expressed indirectly (e.g. gossiping about someone)
C. If relational victimization of girls and if aggression is seen as means of hurting someone than women may not differ so much from men in terms of using aggression
D. All 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 - Who said “aggression is the most prominent in one well-known view, frustration is necessary and sufficient condition for all aggression”.
A. Maslow
B. Miller
C. Lewin
D. None of these - A researcher has children watch 30 minutes of violent television, and then counts the number of times they hit each other afterward in a one-hour play period as a measure of aggression. The researcher causes aggression, however this conclusion may be invalid because:
A. all children are prone to aggressive behavior
B. it is unethical to force children to watch violent television
C. there was no control group
D. aggression wasn’t operationally defined - Researchers have discovered that “cyber-ostracism” by strangers elicits increased in the:
A. ventromedial hypothalamus
B. anterior commissure
C. anterior cingulated cortex
D. lateral hypothalamus - Males have been found to differ slightly from females in three well-documented areas of mental abilities. Which of the following is not one of these?
A. verbal ability
B. mathematical ability
C. intelligence
D. visual-spatial abilities - Which TWO of the following statements are true of simultaneous contrast illusions? 1. In the simultaneous tilt illusion, vertical stripes appear tilted away from the tilt of their surrounding stripes. 2. In the luminance illusion, a grey patch appears darker when surrounded by a dark area than when surrounded by a light area. 3 A purple patch appears slightly closer to blue when surrounded by red, and closer to red when seen against a blue background. 4. Visual illusion effect only exist for motion.
A. 1 & 3
B. 2 & 3
C. 3 & 4
D. 2 & 4 - If characteristic requires only one gene to show itself that characteristic is considered _______________?
A. dominant
B. co-dominant
C. incompletely dominant
D. recessive
