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Psychology Beginning Of The Year Quiz

Which perspective of psychology would be most likely to answer the following question: "How does the body and brain enable emotions?"

Which perspective of psychology deals with how humans think?

According to evolutionary psychologists, women are more likely than men to be choosier about who they mate with for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:

Why are people prone to fear spiders more than guns?

In the psychological debate bature vs. nurture, nature is:

__________________________________ is an evolutionary process through which adaptive traits are passed on to ongoing generations because these traits help animals survive and reproduce.

A ______________________________ is the set of complete instructions for making an organism, containing all the genes in that organism.

A ____________________________ twin is when there is one egg fertilized by one sperm and the cell splits.

A _____________________________________ twin is when there are two eggs and two sperm that develop together in the same womb.

Based on the video we viewed in class, boys are more likely to be homosexual if they have:

How did the scientists get the female rats to behave as the opposite sex in the video we viewed in class?

What percent of fraternal twins' DNA is shared?

containing _______________ are situated in the nucleus of a cell.

_____________________________________________ study our differences and weigh the relative effects of heredity and environment.

An evolutionary psychologist would say that in most cases the grandparent we would be closest to would be:

An evolutionary psychologist would say we would be more likely to save our one year old child or our five year old child and why?

Which of the following children would an evolutionary psychologist say we would be most upset by if they died?

At most women can have about _ children while men can have _________.

Which of the following would an evolutionary psychologist think was the most unlikely reason for a child to protest going to bed at night:

Which psychological perspective looks at how behavior springs from unconscious drives and conflicts?

Males hit puberty:

One think we learned about size and stature is that:

At the beginning of pregnancy how many pregnancies are twins?

In studying the brains of males and females, it has been found that females have more _ while males have more _.

What percent of the female body is fat?

All of the following are reasons for pair-bonding in humans EXCEPT:

Choose a human characteristic or behavior we've discussed in class and do the following:

A. Identify the characteristic or behavior

B. Explain how an evolutionary psychologist would explain why we developed that characteristic or behavior.

Psychology Beginning Of The Year Quiz

Which perspective of psychology would be most likely to answer the following question: "How does the body and brain enable emotions?"

Which perspective of psychology deals with how humans think?

According to evolutionary psychologists, women are more likely than men to be choosier about who they mate with for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:

Why are people prone to fear spiders more than guns?

In the psychological debate bature vs. nurture, nature is:

__________________________________ is an evolutionary process through which adaptive traits are passed on to ongoing generations because these traits help animals survive and reproduce.

A ______________________________ is the set of complete instructions for making an organism, containing all the genes in that organism.

A ____________________________ twin is when there is one egg fertilized by one sperm and the cell splits.

A _____________________________________ twin is when there are two eggs and two sperm that develop together in the same womb.

Based on the video we viewed in class, boys are more likely to be homosexual if they have:

How did the scientists get the female rats to behave as the opposite sex in the video we viewed in class?

What percent of fraternal twins' DNA is shared?

____________________________containing ___________________________________________ are situated in the nucleus of a cell.

_____________________________________________ study our differences and weigh the relative effects of heredity and environment.

An evolutionary psychologist would say that in most cases the grandparent we would be closest to would be:

An evolutionary psychologist would say we would be more likely to save our one year old child or our five year old child and why?

Which of the following children would an evolutionary psychologist say we would be most upset by if they died?

At most women can have about _______ children while men can have _______________.

Which of the following would an evolutionary psychologist think was the most unlikely reason for a child to protest going to bed at night:

Which psychological perspective looks at how behavior springs from unconscious drives and conflicts?

Males hit puberty:

One think we learned about size and stature is that:

At the beginning of pregnancy how many pregnancies are twins?

In studying the brains of males and females, it has been found that females have more _____________________ while males have more _____________________.

What percent of the female body is fat?

All of the following are reasons for pair-bonding in humans EXCEPT:

Choose a human characteristic or behavior we've discussed in class and do the following: A. Identify the characteristic or behavior B. Explain how an evolutionary psychologist would explain why we developed that characteristic or behavior.

containing _______________ are situated in the nucleus of a cell.

At most women can have about _ children while men can have _________.

In studying the brains of males and females, it has been found that females have more _ while males have more _.

Choose a human characteristic or behavior we've discussed in class and do the following:

A. Identify the characteristic or behavior

B. Explain how an evolutionary psychologist would explain why we developed that characteristic or behavior.