Nichers Have Three Tasks: Creating Niches, ________, and Protecting Niches

question 81

Multiple Choice

Nichers have three tasks: creating niches, ________, and protecting niches.

• A) cloning niches
• B) attacking niches
• C) expanding niches
• D) specialization
• E) guerilla warfare

Understand the ethological perspective on human aggression and its roots in instinctual behavior.

Grasp the fundamental assumptions of biological explanations of aggression, including genetic determinants.

Comprehend the major theoretical accounts of aggression that incorporate biological aspects.

Identify the various approaches to studying aggression, including psychodynamic and ethological perspectives.

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Definitions:

Skinner

B.F. Skinner was an American psychologist and behaviorist who developed the theory of operant conditioning, focusing on the consequences of behaviors.

Freud

Sigmund Freud, Austrian neurologist and founder of psychoanalysis, a method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst.

Falsifiable

A characteristic of a statement, hypothesis, or theory that denotes it can be proven false by observation or experimentation.

Heuristic

A method or approach that enables a person to discover or learn something for themselves, often using experiences or observations rather than rigid rules.