Why Is It Less Useful to Think of Behavior as a Linear

question 56

Multiple Choice

Why is it less useful to think of behavior as a linear series of sensing, analyzing, and acting than as a continuous cyclical process?

• A)When an organism senses something, it reacts virtually simultaneously and too quickly to be sequential.
• B)When an organism is acting it may also be sensing and analyzing another stimulus.
• C)An organism only acts cyclically and never as a result of just one stimulus.
• D)An organism does not always analyze a stimulus before acting on it.
• E)The brain of an organism must always receive sensation and perceive it before reacting to any other.

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