In an "Ideal" World,organisms That Are Fine-Tuned for Reproduction Would

question 10

Multiple Choice

In an "ideal" world,organisms that are fine-tuned for reproduction would ________.

• A) mature at birth
• B) produce high-quality offspring continuously and in high numbers
• C) live forever
• D) All of the above, taken together.

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Definitions:

Operationalization

The process of defining a fuzzy concept so as to make the concept measurable and to understand it in terms of empirical observations.

Hawthorne Effect

The effect that researchers themselves may have on an experimental group. The effect is named after an organizational study in which employees were found to be responding to the perceived interest of management rather than to the experimental condition itself.

External Validity

The extent to which the results of a study can be generalized to other situations, populations, or time periods beyond the study itself.

Diffusion

In experimental design, the problem of a treatment effect spreading from group to group as people communicate.