A Newly Hatched Duck Adopts the Most Frequently Encountered Animal

question 38

Multiple Choice

A newly hatched duck adopts the most frequently encountered animal or object it sees during a sensitive period as its mother. This is an example of

• A) operant conditioning.
• B) insight learning.
• C) habituation.
• D) trial-and-error learning.
• E) imprinting.

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Definitions:

Mutually Exclusive

Events or propositions that cannot both occur or be true at the same time.

P(A)

The probability of event A occurring in a given statistical experiment or context.

P(B)

Symbolically represents the probability of occurrence of event B in a statistical context.

Collectively Exhaustive

A term used to describe a set of events that covers all possible outcomes of an experiment.