Multiple choice

There are particular centres and circuits in animals' nervous system which produce fixed and stereotyped responses to evidence stimuli. What is this mechanism called?

  1. Effector mechanism

  2. Innate releasing mechanism

  3. Concept of motivation

  4. Sensory perceptual mechanism

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B Correct answer
Explanation

An innate releasing mechanism is a hypothetical innate system within an animal that responds to a stimulus in the environment to produce a pre-programmed stereotyped behavior or fixed action pattern.