Question: Lashley’s observation that any part of a functional area of the brain could perform the function associated with that area was called:
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Answer: C – equipotentiality
Question: Lashley’s search for the engram:
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Answer: B – was unsuccessful
Question: Which of the following did Hebb accomplish?
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Answer: C – He linked the reticular activating system with cognitive and behavioral performance.
Question: Roger Sperry and his colleagues discovered that information could be transferred from one cerebral hemisphere to the other via the:
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Answer: A – corpus callosum and optic chiasm
Question: Using the split-brain preparation, Sperry and his colleagues speculated that:
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Answer: D – the functions performed by the two cerebral hemispheres were dramatically different
Question: ____ focuses on a specific category of an animal’s behavior in its natural habitat and attempts to explain that behavior in terms of evolutionary theory.
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Answer: A – Ethology
Question: Sociobiology attempts to explain complex social behavior in terms of ____ theory.
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Answer: D – evolutionary
Question: According to the sociobiologists, the social behavior of any individual is determined by:
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Answer: C – both inherited dispositions (biology) and culture
Question: Barash wrote the book, The Whisperings Within. “Whisperings” refers to what?
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Answer: C – predispositions to act in certain ways
Question: The term sociobiology is often used interchangeably with the term:
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Answer: C – evolutionary psychology
Question: According to Buss, the sociobiological fallacy refers to:
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Answer: A – the contention that we merely live to pass copies of our genes into the next generation
Question: According to Seligman, ____ determines how easily an animal will learn.
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Answer: A – the animal’s evolutionary history
Question: According to Bouchard, any similarities in intelligence or personality between twins separated at birth must be due to:
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Answer: B – genetic influences
Question: What indicates how much of the variation among measures (e.g., test scores) is attributed to genetic influences?
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Answer: B – Heritability
Question: Bouchard estimated the heritability of intelligence to be about:
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Answer: C – .70
Question: Bouchard and his colleagues found that the most important determinant of a person’s religious interests, attitudes, and values is:
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Answer: C – genetics
Question: Behavioral geneticists tend toward ____ because they believe that at least some thought processes or behavior patterns are strongly influenced by heredity.
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Answer: B – nativism