Can someone pls explain how the answer is (E)?
can you provide some context ?(How you initially approached it …)
The first blank isn’t helping, so I went for the second one. “most instinctive of behavioral responses” indicated “primitive” to me, hence I chose option A.
Here , this is hinting towards “genetic programming”
and it seems likes the author is emphasizing the term Genetic Programming in general !
animal’s learning is heavily influenced by its genetics. It implies that the animal’s behavior is controlled by its genetic programming, rather than by the animal’s own experiences or decision-making.
Thus, its hinting towards that the animal’s behavior is innate or inherited and that it is heavily influenced by genetic factors rather than by external factors such as the environment or the animal’s own experiences.(Hence, why stereotyped make sense for blank ii as it implies the same thing as instinctive of behavioral )