Psychology 103 - Physiological Psychology » Spring 2022 » Chapter 2 Practice Quiz 1

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Question #1
The general intellectual climate of a culture is referred to as its
A.   canon.
B.   zeitgeist.
C.   guano.
D.   converging operations.
E.   confounds.
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.   traditional dichotomies.
B.   psychology.
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.   Hebb.
B.   Descartes.
C.   Locke.
D.   Plato.
E.   Pinel.
Question #4
Descartes's philosophy was called
A.   dualism.
B.   mentalism.
C.   monism.
D.   ethology.
E.   behaviorism.
Question #5
Nature is to nurture as
A.   all of these
B.   behaviorism is to ethology.
C.   genetics is to experience.
D.   learning is to genetics.
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.   learned response.
B.   deficiency in the awareness of parts of one's own body.
C.   consequence of hypothalamic damage.
D.   form of Korsakoff's syndrome.
E.   dualistic philosophy.
Question #8
One way to study self-awareness in nonhuman animals is to confront them with
A.   a photograph of themselves.
B.   a mirror.
C.   a frontal-lobe lesion.
D.   a difficult task.
E.     
F.   an experiment.
Question #9
All behavior is the product of
A.   an organism's experience.
B.   all of these
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.   1312
B.   1943
C.   1920
D.   1562
E.   1859
Question #11
Darwin was not the first to suggest that species evolve, but he was the first to suggest that
A.   evolution occurs through natural selection.
B.   sex is an important component of evolution for all living species.
C.   cultures rarely evolve.
D.   evolution occurs by genetics.
E.   mammals do not evolve.
Question #12
Darwin suggested a mechanism for evolution:
A.   all of these
B.   sex.
C.   none of these
D.   natural selection.
E.   genes.

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