Classification

question 13

Essay

Classification.Respond to the following statements with reference to the five terms listed below, which are used by ecologists.
a.carrying capacity
b.net reproduction per individual per unit time
c.age structure
d.survivorship
e.growth rate
-This is the birth rate minus the death rate assuming they are constant.

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Definitions:

Electra Complex

A psychoanalytic concept involving a girl's psychosexual competition with her mother for possession of her father.

Castration Fear

A psychological fear often associated with the anxiety of losing one's power or masculinity, typically linked to Freudian psychoanalytic theory.

Sexual Object

An object or a person that is the focus of one's sexual desire or attraction.

Oedipus Complex

A Freudian concept in psychoanalytic theory indicating a child's unconscious sexual desire for the opposite-sex parent and jealousy toward the same-sex parent.