What Do(es) the Following Figures Suggest About Learning in Drosophila

question 20

Multiple Choice

What do(es) the following figures suggest about learning in Drosophila flies?

• A) Learning may impose an evolutionary trade-off between its costs and benefits.
• B) Long-lived flies were slower at learning than wild-type flies.
• C) Fast-learning flies have shorter life spans than control flies.
• D) b and c
• E) all of the above

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Definitions:

Direct Request

A clear and straightforward way of asking for what one wants or needs without ambiguity.

Group Pressure

The psychological influence exerted by a group on individual members to align their behavior or beliefs with group norms.

Asch

Refers to Solomon Asch, known for his research on conformity, including his famous experiments that demonstrated the power of social pressure.

Milgram

Stanley Milgram was a psychologist best known for his controversial experiment on obedience to authority figures, conducted in the 1960s.