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

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