Question 1

Discuss the research presented in the text regarding the heritability of intelligence and personality.

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Bouchard studied the influence of geneti...

Question 2

The influence of ethology on contemporary psychology comes mainly through:

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A)  radical behaviorism
B)  sociobiology
C)  cognitive science
D)  research on instinctual drift

Question 3

The idea of mass action:

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A)  states that the amount of loss of ability is related to the amount of cortex
B)  destroyed rather than the location of the destruction in the cortex
C)  was true only for the ablation of cortical tissue following complex learning
D)  states that the amount of loss of ability is related to the amount of cortex and was true only for the ablation of cortical tissue following complex learning

Question 4

According to Hebb,when a phase sequence fires we experience a(n) :

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A)  idea
B)  stream of thought
C)  general state of well-being
D)  mass action

Question 5

Lashley's observation that any part of a functional area of the brain could perform the function associated with that area was called:

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A)  mass action
B)  functionalism
C)  equipotentiality
D)  psychobiology

Question 6

____ indicates how much of the variation among measures (e.g. ,test scores) is attributed to genetic influences.

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A)  Nurture
B)  Heritability
C)  The preparedness continuum
D)  The correlation coefficient (r)

Question 7

Describe Lashley's principles of mass action and equipotentiality.

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Mass action is where the loss of ability...

Question 8

According to the sociobiologists,the social behavior of any individual is determined by:

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A)  inherited dispositions (biology) 
B)  culture
C)  both inherited dispositions (biology) and culture
D)  neither inherited dispositions (biology) nor culture

Question 9

Lashley did pioneering ethological research with

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A)  Watson
B)  Lorenz
C)  Sperry
D)  Yerkes

Question 10

Ethology is the study of specific categories of behavior in an animal's natural environment.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 11

For Barash,humans possess a biogrammar that structures our ability to learn complex relationships.

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A) True 
 B)False  False

Question 12

Lashley:

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A)  was an opponent of Watsonian behaviorism
B)  sought to support Watsonian behaviorism with neurophysiological evidence
C)  found the engram - neurophysiological locus of memory and learning
D)  was an opponent of Watsonian behaviorism and found the engram - neurophysiological locus of memory and learning

Question 13

What was once called sociobiology is now generally referred to as?

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A)  new connectionism
B)  silly
C)  evolutionary psychology
D)  ethology

Question 14

With research with split-brain preparations speculation concerning hemispheric specialization and differences began to exceed the facts,the speculations include:

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A)  belief that tests could be devised to determine right and left brain dominance
B)  ideas that educational practices could be employed to specifically enhance right and left brain functions
C)  each hemisphere is a separate personality which we can measure
D)  belief that tests could be devised to determine right and left brain dominance and ideas that educational practices could be employed to specifically enhance right and left brain functions D

Question 15

Chomsky maintains that learning is the basis of language acquisition.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 16

According to Edward Wilson,humans created culture because doing so:

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A)  proved human superiority to the rest of the animal kingdom
B)  reduced the probability of humans engaging in warfare
C)  allowed humans to manifest the love they felt toward one another
D)  facilitated survival

Question 17

For Hebb:

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A)  childhood learning involves a slow buildup of cell assemblies and phase sequences
B)  adult learning involves insight and creativity
C)  learning of all types can be explained in terms of building Gestalt cell assemblies
D)  childhood learning involves a slow buildup of cell assemblies and phase sequences and adult learning involves insight and creativity

Question 18

Chomsky's explanation of language is basically:

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A)  empiricistic
B)  nativistic
C)  associationistic
D)  mechanistic B

Question 19

According to Buss,the sociobiological fallacy refers to what?

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A)  the contention that we live to pass copies of our genes into the next generation
B)  the idea that behaviors were selected in our evolutionary past because they solved problems
C)  the application of Darwinian principles to human social behavior
D)  the idea that if a bodily structure or a behavioral tendency now exists,it must have contributed to the survival of the ancestors of a species

Question 20

Lashley's observations resulted in the principles of mass action and equipotentiality.

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A) True 
 B)False

Exam 19: Psychobiology

Discuss the research presented in the text regarding the heritability of intelligence and personality.

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The influence of ethology on contemporary psychology comes mainly through:

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The idea of mass action:

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According to Hebb,when a phase sequence fires we experience a(n) :

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Lashley's observation that any part of a functional area of the brain could perform the function associated with that area was called:

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____ indicates how much of the variation among measures (e.g. ,test scores) is attributed to genetic influences.

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Describe Lashley's principles of mass action and equipotentiality.

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According to the sociobiologists,the social behavior of any individual is determined by:

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Lashley did pioneering ethological research with

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Ethology is the study of specific categories of behavior in an animal's natural environment.

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For Barash,humans possess a biogrammar that structures our ability to learn complex relationships.

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Lashley:

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What was once called sociobiology is now generally referred to as?

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With research with split-brain preparations speculation concerning hemispheric specialization and differences began to exceed the facts,the speculations include:

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Chomsky maintains that learning is the basis of language acquisition.

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According to Edward Wilson,humans created culture because doing so:

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For Hebb:

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Chomsky's explanation of language is basically:

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Lashley's observations resulted in the principles of mass action and equipotentiality.

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