Psychology Beginning Of The Year Quiz
- 1.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.
- 2.Which perspective of psychology would be most likely to answer the following question: "How does the body and brain enable emotions?"
- A.
Neuroscience
- B.
Psychodynamic
- C.
Behavioral
- D.
Cognitive
- 3.Which perspective of psychology deals with how humans think?
- A.
Behavioral
- B.
Cognitive
- C.
Behavior genetics
- D.
Social-cultural
- 4.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:
- A.
They need protection and stability
- B.
They want good genes in their children
- C.
They can only make a limited number of babies
- D.
They can easily raise a child on their own
- 5.Why are people prone to fear spiders more than guns?
- A.
Spiders are more deadly
- B.
Our ancestors who were cautious about spiders were more likely to pass their genes to future generations
- C.
Guns look like toys
- D.
Everyone who was scared by guns was killed off because people killed them
- 6.In the psychological debate bature vs. nurture, nature is:
- A.
How we are born (our genes)
- B.
What we are exposed to (our environment)
- C.
Trees and insects and such
- D.
Our brain's way of processing information
- 7.__________________________________ is an evolutionary process through which adaptive traits are passed on to ongoing generations because these traits help animals survive and reproduce.
- A.
Social Darwinism
- B.
Natural selection
- C.
Genetic mutation
- D.
Cognitive psychology
- 8.A ______________________________ is the set of complete instructions for making an organism, containing all the genes in that organism.
- A.
Chromosome
- B.
DNA
- C.
Nucleus
- D.
Genome
- 9.A ____________________________ twin is when there is one egg fertilized by one sperm and the cell splits.
- A.
Siamese
- B.
Fraternal
- C.
Identical
- D.
Conjoined
- 10.A _____________________________________ twin is when there are two eggs and two sperm that develop together in the same womb.
- A.
Siamese
- B.
Fraternal
- C.
Identical
- D.
Conjoined
- 11.Based on the video we viewed in class, boys are more likely to be homosexual if they have:
- A.
Older brothers and are left-handed
- B.
Older sisters and are right-handed
- C.
Older brothers and are right-handed
- D.
Older sisters and are left-handed
- 12.How did the scientists get the female rats to behave as the opposite sex in the video we viewed in class?
- A.
Injected the girls with testosterone after birth
- B.
Fed the mother certain food while they were in the womb
- C.
Raised them with all boys
- D.
Raised them with all girls
- 13.What percent of fraternal twins' DNA is shared?
- A.
25%
- B.
50%
- C.
75%
- D.
100%
- 14.____________________________containing ___________________________________________ are situated in the nucleus of a cell.
- A.
Genome; chromosomes
- B.
DNA; chromosomes
- C.
Chromosomes; genome
- D.
Chromosomes; DNA
- 15._____________________________________________ study our differences and weigh the relative effects of heredity and environment.
- A.
Natural geneticists
- B.
Behavior geneticists
- C.
Clinical psychologists
- D.
Humanistic psychologists
- 16.An evolutionary psychologist would say that in most cases the grandparent we would be closest to would be:
- A.
Father's mother
- B.
Father's father
- C.
Mother's mother
- D.
Mother's father
- 17.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?
- A.
Five year old because they are less likely to die before reproducing
- B.
Five year old because we know them better
- C.
One year old because they are more defenseless
- D.
One year old because they are cuter
- 18.Which of the following children would an evolutionary psychologist say we would be most upset by if they died?
- A.
Healthy female child
- B.
Healthy male child
- C.
Sick male child
- D.
Sick female child
- 19.At most women can have about _______ children while men can have _______________.
- A.
10; 20
- B.
30; hundreds (or more)
- C.
Hundreds (or more); hundreds (or more)
- D.
8; 10
- 20.Which of the following would an evolutionary psychologist think was the most unlikely reason for a child to protest going to bed at night:
- A.
They want to stay up to see what's going on
- B.
They might get left behind in the dark
- C.
They might get eaten by an animal in the dark
- D.
They can't protect themselves
- 21.Which psychological perspective looks at how behavior springs from unconscious drives and conflicts?
- A.
Psychodynamic
- B.
Humanistic
- C.
Behavioral
- D.
Neuroscience
- 22.Males hit puberty:
- A.
2 years before females
- B.
At the same time as females
- C.
2 years after females
- D.
At the age of 10
- 23.One think we learned about size and stature is that:
- A.
People who were taller had advantages
- B.
People who walked on four limbs had advantages
- C.
People who were shorter had advantages
- D.
People who were bent over had advantages
- 24.At the beginning of pregnancy how many pregnancies are twins?
- A.
1 out of 1000
- B.
1 out of 8
- C.
1 out of 65
- D.
All of them
- 25.In studying the brains of males and females, it has been found that females have more _____________________ while males have more _____________________.
- A.
Data gathering; white matter
- B.
Cortexes; neurons
- C.
Neurons; cortexes
- D.
White matter; data gathering
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