Imagine you are a male three-spined stickleback (a fish). You come across a nest of unfertilized three-spined stickleback eggs and you can't help but do a particular dance and then go ahead and fertilize the eggs. Which theory of motivation accounts for your behavior?

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The behavior of fertilizing the eggs is an innate, instinctual action that is hardwired in the stickleback fish, aligning with the instinct doctrine which explains behaviors that are biologically programmed.

Imagine You Are a Male Three-Spined Stickleback (A Fish)