The Major Weakness of Charles Darwin's Theory During His Lifetime

question 16

Multiple Choice

The major weakness of Charles Darwin's theory during his lifetime was the:

• A)fact that populations do not promote competition but rather promote sharing.
• B)lack of a mechanism to explain how traits were passed to offspring intact when most believed inheritance worked through blending.
• C)fact that, at certain points in embryonic development, diverse species all have structures known as pharyngeal gill slits.
• D)lack of variation in natural populations.

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Definitions:

CS

is an abbreviation that can stand for conditional stimulus in behavioral psychology, representing a previously neutral stimulus that, after being paired with an unconditioned stimulus, elicits a conditioned response.

Extinction

In behavioral psychology, the gradual weakening and disappearance of conditioned response when it is no longer reinforced.

Experimental Neurosis

A pattern of erratic or maladaptive behavior in animals caused by exposure to unpredictable and uncontrollable events, used as a model to study human neuroses.

Classical Conditioning

A learning process that occurs when two stimuli are repeatedly paired; a response that is at first elicited by the second stimulus is eventually elicited by the first stimulus alone.