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Question #1
The general intellectual climate of a culture is referred to as its
A.   converging operations.
B.   zeitgeist.
C.   confounds.
D.   canon.
E.   guano.
Question #2
A major purpose of Chapter 2 of Biopsychology is to teach you NOT to think about the biology of behavior in terms of
A.   the brain.
B.   instinct.
C.   traditional dichotomies.
D.   psychology.
E.   Cartesian dualism.
Question #3
The idea that the human brain and human mind are separate entities was formalized in the 1600s by
A.   Pinel.
B.   Descartes.
C.   Locke.
D.   Plato.
E.   Hebb.
Question #4
Descartes's philosophy was called
A.   monism.
B.   ethology.
C.   dualism.
D.   mentalism.
E.   behaviorism.
Question #5
Nature is to nurture as
A.   all of these
B.   genetics is to experience.
C.   behaviorism is to ethology.
D.   learning is to genetics.
Question #6
European ethologists focused on the study of
A.   learning.
B.   invertebrates.
C.   instinctive behaviors.
D.   all of these
Question #7
Asomatognosia is a
A.   dualistic philosophy.
B.   consequence of hypothalamic damage.
C.   deficiency in the awareness of parts of one's own body.
D.   learned response.
E.   form of Korsakoff's syndrome.
Question #8
One way to study self-awareness in nonhuman animals is to confront them with
A.   an experiment.
B.     
C.   a difficult task.
D.   a photograph of themselves.
E.   a mirror.
F.   a frontal-lobe lesion.
Question #9
All behavior is the product of
A.   all of these
B.   an organism's experience.
C.   an organism's perception of the current situation.
D.   an organism's genetic endowment.
Question #10
Darwin's theory of evolution was published in
A.   1943
B.   1562
C.   1312
D.   1859
E.   1920
Question #11
Darwin was not the first to suggest that species evolve, but he was the first to suggest that
A.   sex is an important component of evolution for all living species.
B.   cultures rarely evolve.
C.   evolution occurs through natural selection.
D.   evolution occurs by genetics.
E.   mammals do not evolve.
Question #12
Darwin suggested a mechanism for evolution:
A.   natural selection.
B.   none of these
C.   genes.
D.   sex.
E.   all of these

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