Which of the Following Is Not True About Species Diversity

question 39

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is not true about species diversity?

• A) It includes species richness.
• B) It includes species age distribution.
• C) It is influenced by the relative abundance of species.
• D) It is influenced by the distribution of the different species.
• E) It is not impacted by species richness.

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Definitions:

Habituation

Tendency of the brain to stop attending to constant, unchanging information.

Learned Helplessness

A condition in which a person suffers from a sense of powerlessness, arising from traumatic events or persistent failure to succeed. It is thought to be one of the underlying causes of depression.

Contingency Blocking

A phenomenon in classical conditioning where a subject learns to associate a particular stimulus with an outcome, blocking the learning of an association with a new stimulus presented at the same time.

Response Generalization

The process by which a learned response is applied to similar stimuli beyond the original conditioned stimulus.