Developmental (Or Ontogenetic) Adaptation

question 37

Multiple Choice

Developmental (or ontogenetic) adaptation

• A) occurs at the individual level throughout an individual's lifetime.
• B) occurs at the individual level during childhood.
• C) involves using material culture to make living possible in certain settings.
• D) occurs at the population level via natural selection.

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Definitions:

Detection

The act or process of discovering or identifying the presence of a specific substance, condition, or characteristic.

Activation

In psychology, the process of stimulating an action or response by using a stimulus, often related to the arousal of some physiological or psychological activity.

Sensory Adaptation

The method through which sensory receptors decrease in sensitivity to unchanging stimuli as time progresses.

Synaesthesia

A perceptual condition in which stimulation of one sensory pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory pathway.