Your psychology instructor is preparing her lecture on learning and wants to include an analogy about memes.She starts by writing "Memes are to genes as ..." but cannot figure out how to finish the sentence.Which of the following would best complete her thought?
A) culture is to society
B) mirror neurons are to long-term potentiation
C) nurture is to nature
D) neutral stimulus is to conditioned response

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Memes are cultural elements that spread and evolve, similar to how genes are biological elements that spread and evolve. The analogy "nurture is to nature" reflects the cultural (nurture) versus biological (nature) comparison.

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