Which of the Following Situations Best Illustrates How a Stimulus

question 79

Multiple Choice

Which of the following situations best illustrates how a stimulus motive can direct behavior?

• A) A rat will learn a maze in order to get food.
• B) Children who see an object new to their environment will usually pick it up and try to see how it works.
• C) People who are used to eating dinner at 6 P. M. feel hungrier as dinnertime approaches.
• D) Monkeys kept in a zoo will form male-female pairs, copulate, and rear their young.

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Definitions:

Antagonists

Drugs that impede the activity of a neurotransmitter.

Opponent-Process Theory

A psychological and neurological model that explains how the perception of colors results from opposing neural processes.

Chromatic/Achromatic

Refers to colors with hue (chromatic) and without hue (achromatic), such as black, white, and grays.

Opponent-Process Pairs

A theory suggesting that the human visual system interprets colors in an antagonistic way, through pairs of colors opposite each other on the color spectrum.