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

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