PSYCH 1XX3 FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS
WITH CORRECT ANSWERS
Evolution - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-The unifying theory of the biological
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sciences - including psychology | | |
Adaptations - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-The functional traits that help an
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individual to survive and reproduce in its habitat
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-perform a specific function to make an organism better suited for its
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environment
What did the Evolution of the Human eye allow for humans to do
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better? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-the human eye enables you to
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recognize and respond effectively to things around you by detecting and
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analyzing reflecting light
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What did the Evolution of a Racoons allow for them to do better? -
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CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Racoons are primarily nocturnal and while they
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do have good night vision
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- their front paws have adapted to become so sensitive that they often
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don't require vision to discriminate food items from non food items in
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the dark |
,What did the Evolution of a Bats echolocation system allow for them to
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do better? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--adaptation that enables them to
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navigate their environment at night,
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-echolocation system allows for bats to discriminate easily BTWN a | | | | | | | | | |
falling leaf and a moth fluttering in the night
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Which higher mental processes are adaptive functions of mental
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activity? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--higher mental processes that serve
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adaptive functions of mental activity
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-evolved together through natural selection
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-tasks the mind needs to do its job
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3 processes:
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- selective attention,
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-memory encoding, |
- memory retrieval
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What are cognitive psychologists also referred to as being - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-Cognitive psychologists are also adaptationists, because | | | | | |
they find it helpful to breakdown large scale cognitive processes into
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adaptive problems or tasks and then to look for the adaptations that
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solve those problems
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Who is responsible for the theory of
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,Natural Selection? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Charles Darwin and Alfred
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Wallace
What is Natural Selection?
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3 components of natural selection? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Natural
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Selection is the differential survival and reproduction of organisms as a
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result of the heritable differences between them
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1)Individual Differences (Variation) - within any population, there is
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variation among individuals for any characteristic
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2)Differential Reproduction - these differences affect individuals
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chances of surviving and reproducing some individuals will have more
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offspring than others| |
3)Heritability - traits that give rise to differential reproduction have
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genetic basis, meaning that are heritable, the offspring of successful
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reproducers will resemble their parents with respect to these variable
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characteristics
What are the 4 basic mechanisms of Evolution? - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-1) Natural Selection | |
2) Mutation
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3) Genetic Drift
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4) Migration
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, What happens to characteristics that help an individual reproduce? -
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CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Characteristics that help an individual survive
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and reproduce are selectively transmitted to consecutive generations
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summary of NS and example, of heritable traits, that is used in the web
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Module? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--characteristics that help an
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individual survive and reproduce are selectively transmitted to
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consequtive generations |
ex. Imagine a group of red and blue fish, blue fish are camouflaged in
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the blue ocean water and the red fish are much more visible to
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predators and so the red fish get eaten more often and the blue fish are
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able to survive and reproduce more often than the red fish & B/C body
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colour is a heritable trait blue fish have blue fish children and this is
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because the specific characteristics that are best adapted for survival
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and reproduction are going to be produced at higher rates"
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stabilizing selection? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Selection against any sort
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of departure from he species typical adaptive design, this type of
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selection keeps traits stable over generations
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What happens to genetic selection during significant environmental
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changes?
ex. Darwin's finches
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WITH CORRECT ANSWERS
Evolution - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-The unifying theory of the biological
| | | | | | | | |
sciences - including psychology | | |
Adaptations - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-The functional traits that help an
| | | | | | | | |
individual to survive and reproduce in its habitat
| | | | | | |
-perform a specific function to make an organism better suited for its
| | | | | | | | | | | |
environment
What did the Evolution of the Human eye allow for humans to do
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
better? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-the human eye enables you to
| | | | | | | | |
recognize and respond effectively to things around you by detecting and
| | | | | | | | | |
analyzing reflecting light
| | |
What did the Evolution of a Racoons allow for them to do better? -
| | | | | | | | | | | | | |
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Racoons are primarily nocturnal and while they
| | | | | | | |
do have good night vision
| | | |
- their front paws have adapted to become so sensitive that they often
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
don't require vision to discriminate food items from non food items in
| | | | | | | | | | | |
the dark |
,What did the Evolution of a Bats echolocation system allow for them to
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
do better? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--adaptation that enables them to
| | | | | | | | |
navigate their environment at night,
| | | |
-echolocation system allows for bats to discriminate easily BTWN a | | | | | | | | | |
falling leaf and a moth fluttering in the night
| | | | | | | |
Which higher mental processes are adaptive functions of mental
| | | | | | | | |
activity? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--higher mental processes that serve
| | | | | | | |
adaptive functions of mental activity
| | | |
-evolved together through natural selection
| | | |
-tasks the mind needs to do its job
| | | | | | |
3 processes:
|
- selective attention,
| | |
-memory encoding, |
- memory retrieval
| |
What are cognitive psychologists also referred to as being - CORRECT
| | | | | | | | | | |
ANSWER✔✔-Cognitive psychologists are also adaptationists, because | | | | | |
they find it helpful to breakdown large scale cognitive processes into
| | | | | | | | | | |
adaptive problems or tasks and then to look for the adaptations that
| | | | | | | | | | | |
solve those problems
| |
Who is responsible for the theory of
| | | | | | |
,Natural Selection? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Charles Darwin and Alfred
| | | | | | | |
Wallace
What is Natural Selection?
| | |
3 components of natural selection? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Natural
| | | | | | | |
Selection is the differential survival and reproduction of organisms as a
| | | | | | | | | | |
result of the heritable differences between them
| | | | | |
1)Individual Differences (Variation) - within any population, there is
| | | | | | | | |
variation among individuals for any characteristic
| | | | |
2)Differential Reproduction - these differences affect individuals
| | | | | | |
chances of surviving and reproducing some individuals will have more
| | | | | | | | | |
offspring than others| |
3)Heritability - traits that give rise to differential reproduction have
| | | | | | | | | |
genetic basis, meaning that are heritable, the offspring of successful
| | | | | | | | | |
reproducers will resemble their parents with respect to these variable
| | | | | | | | | |
characteristics
What are the 4 basic mechanisms of Evolution? - CORRECT
| | | | | | | | | |
ANSWER✔✔-1) Natural Selection | |
2) Mutation
| |
3) Genetic Drift
| |
4) Migration
|
, What happens to characteristics that help an individual reproduce? -
| | | | | | | | | |
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Characteristics that help an individual survive
| | | | | | |
and reproduce are selectively transmitted to consecutive generations
| | | | | | |
summary of NS and example, of heritable traits, that is used in the web
| | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Module? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--characteristics that help an
| | | | | | |
individual survive and reproduce are selectively transmitted to
| | | | | | | |
consequtive generations |
ex. Imagine a group of red and blue fish, blue fish are camouflaged in
| | | | | | | | | | | | | |
the blue ocean water and the red fish are much more visible to
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
predators and so the red fish get eaten more often and the blue fish are
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
able to survive and reproduce more often than the red fish & B/C body
| | | | | | | | | | | | | |
colour is a heritable trait blue fish have blue fish children and this is
| | | | | | | | | | | | | |
because the specific characteristics that are best adapted for survival
| | | | | | | | | |
and reproduction are going to be produced at higher rates"
| | | | | | | | |
stabilizing selection? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Selection against any sort
| | | | | | | |
of departure from he species typical adaptive design, this type of
| | | | | | | | | | |
selection keeps traits stable over generations
| | | | |
What happens to genetic selection during significant environmental
| | | | | | | |
changes?
ex. Darwin's finches
| |
