Ethologists Have Identified in Some Species Certain Sequences of Behavior

question 5

Multiple Choice

Ethologists have identified in some species certain sequences of behavior called fixed action patterns. Which of the following is false about fixed action patterns?

• A) Social scientists have found nothing like them in human behavior.
• B) The behaviors that comprise them appear to occur in a regular, automatic fashion.
• C) They are stimulated primarily by a "trigger" feature of a situation rather than that situation as a whole.
• D) Most of the time, fixed action patterns produce behavior that is appropriate to the situation.

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