ARPA Director J

question 36

Multiple Choice

ARPA Director J.C.R. Licklider conceived of a Galactic Network that would

• A) control weapons from space.
• B) guide spacecraft to distant planets.
• C) become the world's most powerful number-crunching machine.
• D) facilitate the exchange of programs and data.
• E) All of the above

Acknowledge the irreversible nature of communication and its consequences.

Understand metacommunication and its role in defining relationship boundaries.

Understand the role and function of specific brain structures in decision-making and behavior anticipation.

Identify and differentiate between various theories of reinforcement and decision-making (e.g., matching law, maximizing theory, delay-reduction theory).

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Definitions:

Physiological Need

A physiological need is a basic bodily requirement that humans must satisfy to maintain health and survival, such as the need for food, water, and sleep.

Homeostasis

The ability of an organism to maintain internal stability and balance of physiological processes regardless of external changes.

Drive

A natural, genetically programmed impulse to achieve a target or fulfill a desire.

Thirsty Person

An individual experiencing the sensation of thirst, typically a physiological response signaling the need to ingest fluids for bodily hydration.