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

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