The Orienting Reflex Is to ____, as Habituation Is to ____

question 157

Multiple Choice

The orienting reflex is to ____, as habituation is to ____.

• A) learning; forgetting
• B) novel experience; repeated experience
• C) simple information; complex information
• D) adaptive; maladaptive

Understand the cognitive buffer hypothesis and its predictions about brain size, environmental variability, and foraging efficiency.

Design hypotheses and predictions for behavioral patterns observed in the natural world.

Understand how observational and experimental methods can be used to test hypotheses in behavioral ecology.

Understand the cultural expectations and social roles associated with bereavement.

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Definitions:

Cannon-Bard Theory

A theory of emotion that proposes emotions and physiological responses occur simultaneously, and one does not cause the other.

Schachter and Singer's

Psychologists who proposed the two-factor theory of emotion, suggesting that emotion is based on physiological arousal and cognitive labels.

Plutchik's

Refers to Robert Plutchik's psychoevolutionary theory of emotion, which categorizes emotions into eight primary types forming a wheel.

James-Lange

A theory of emotion that posits emotions arise from physiological responses to stimuli, rather than being the cause of such responses.