Assignment: Discuss Evolutionary psychology
Assignment: Discuss Evolutionary psychology
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Question 9 1 / 1 point
Wilhelm Wundt is credited with:
Question options:
a) developing the discipline of psychophysics.
b) evaluating the effects of social forces on one’s behavior.
c) identifying the effects of childhood experiences on the development of our adult personality.
d) giving psychology its independence from philosophy and physiology.
Chapter 1 Evolutionary psychology
Question 10 1 / 1 point
Structures or features that perform a function that did not arise through natural selection are often called _____________.
Question options:
a) exaptations
b) adaptations
c) chance mutations
d) habits
Question 11 1 / 1 point
Jack is a psychologist. Rather than just describing what the mind does, he is more interested in the functions of the human mind. Jack is a(n) ______________ psychologist.
Question options:
a) evolutionary
b) gestalt
c) clinical
d) positive
Chapter 1 Nature versus Nurture
Question 12 1 / 1 point
Which of the following is shown by Kandel (2006) with respect to certain genes in the human brain?
Question options:
a) They cannot facilitate new connections between neurons in an adult brain.
b) They do not differ between organisms despite variations in experience.
c) They are all present and functional at birth.
d) They can be turned on or off by our experiences.
Question 13 1 / 1 point
Which of the following concepts allows for the idea that a soul survives bodily death?
Question options:
a) Nature versus nurture
b) Mind-body dualism
c) Evolutionary theory
d) Natural selection
Question 14 1 / 1 point
In terms of the nature-nurture debate, psychologists’ contemporary view is that human behavior is:
Question options:
a) solely a product of ancestral influences.
b) a product of the interdependence between biology and experience.
c) mostly a product of environmental experience.
d) mostly a product of biology, inborn tendencies, and genetically based traits.
Chapter 1 Research Method
Question 15 1 / 1 point
Which of the following types of psychologists is most likely to conduct research on the age at which the usage of Internet social networks peaks?
Question options:
a) Developmental psychologist
b) Evolutionary psychologist
c) Clinical psychologist
d) Educational psychologist
Question 16 1 / 1 point
In the context of electronic interactions, being publicly private means:
Question options:
a) avoiding online interactions with those people whom you have never met face-to-face.
b) connecting with many other people, while being relatively nonpublic about revealing who you are.
c) disclosing a lot of details of your private life.
d) ensuring that you remove all the traces of your electronic interactions.
Chapter 2 Scientific Method
Question 17 1 / 1 point
If there is scientifically sound evidence for something—even if it is difficult to explain—and it has been replicated, we have to ____________ it.
Question options:
a) test
b) rectify
c) predict
d) accept
