Biopsychology, 11th edition by John P.J.
Pinel Test Bank, Questions and Answers -
All Chpters
Zeitgeist - answer-the general intellectual climate of our culture
Cartesian Dualism - answer-Separation of mind and matter, allowed something to be
investigated independently by reason
nature-nurture issue - answer-the controversy over the relative contributions of biology
and experience
Ethology - answer-study of animal behavior in the wild
instinctive behaviors - answer-behaviors that occur in all like members of a species,
even when there seems to have been no opportunity for them to have been learned
Asomatognosia - answer-a deficiency in the awareness of parts of one's own body
Fitness - answer-Ability of an organism to survive and reproduce in its environment
natural selection - answer-A process in which individuals that have certain inherited
traits tend to survive and reproduce at higher rates than other individuals because of
those traits.
Species - answer-is a group of organisms reproductively isolated from other organisms
conspecifics - answer-members of the same species
Chordates - answer-animals with dorsal nerve cords
vertebrates - answer-animals with backbones
amphibians - answer-vertebrates that live in water and on land, smooth skin covers
body, lay eggs, cold blooded. evolved 400 million years ago
Mammals - answer-Produce milk from their young from mammary glands and have live
births.
Primates - answer-An animal order including lemurs and tarsiers and monkeys and
apes and human beings
, Hominini - answer-Tribe consisting of the genus Homo and several genera of early
bipedal apes
Spandrels - answer-incidental nonadaptive evolutionary by-products
exaptations - answer-evolved to serve one function and were later co-opted to serve
another
Homologous - answer-structures that are similar because they have a common
evolutionary origin
analogous - answer-structures that are similar but do not have a common evolutionary
origin
convergent evolution - answer-Evolution toward similar characteristics in unrelated
species
brain stem - answer-regulates reflex activities that are critical for survival
Cerebrum - answer-Area of the brain responsible for all voluntary activities of the body
convolutions - answer-the folds in the cerebral cortex that increase the surface area of
the brain
Polygyny - answer-One male, several females.
Polyandry - answer-One female, several males.
monogamy - answer-enduring bonds are formed between one make and one female
dichotomous traits - answer-traits that occur in one form or the other, never in
combination
true-breeding lines - answer-breeding lines in which interbred members always produce
offspring with the same trait, generation after generation
dominant trait - answer-the trait observed in the first generation when parents that have
different traits are bred
recessive trait - answer-A trait that reappears in the second generation after
disappearing in the first generation when parents with different traits are bred
Phenotype - answer-An organism's physical appearance, or visible traits.
Genotype - answer-genetic makeup of an organism
Pinel Test Bank, Questions and Answers -
All Chpters
Zeitgeist - answer-the general intellectual climate of our culture
Cartesian Dualism - answer-Separation of mind and matter, allowed something to be
investigated independently by reason
nature-nurture issue - answer-the controversy over the relative contributions of biology
and experience
Ethology - answer-study of animal behavior in the wild
instinctive behaviors - answer-behaviors that occur in all like members of a species,
even when there seems to have been no opportunity for them to have been learned
Asomatognosia - answer-a deficiency in the awareness of parts of one's own body
Fitness - answer-Ability of an organism to survive and reproduce in its environment
natural selection - answer-A process in which individuals that have certain inherited
traits tend to survive and reproduce at higher rates than other individuals because of
those traits.
Species - answer-is a group of organisms reproductively isolated from other organisms
conspecifics - answer-members of the same species
Chordates - answer-animals with dorsal nerve cords
vertebrates - answer-animals with backbones
amphibians - answer-vertebrates that live in water and on land, smooth skin covers
body, lay eggs, cold blooded. evolved 400 million years ago
Mammals - answer-Produce milk from their young from mammary glands and have live
births.
Primates - answer-An animal order including lemurs and tarsiers and monkeys and
apes and human beings
, Hominini - answer-Tribe consisting of the genus Homo and several genera of early
bipedal apes
Spandrels - answer-incidental nonadaptive evolutionary by-products
exaptations - answer-evolved to serve one function and were later co-opted to serve
another
Homologous - answer-structures that are similar because they have a common
evolutionary origin
analogous - answer-structures that are similar but do not have a common evolutionary
origin
convergent evolution - answer-Evolution toward similar characteristics in unrelated
species
brain stem - answer-regulates reflex activities that are critical for survival
Cerebrum - answer-Area of the brain responsible for all voluntary activities of the body
convolutions - answer-the folds in the cerebral cortex that increase the surface area of
the brain
Polygyny - answer-One male, several females.
Polyandry - answer-One female, several males.
monogamy - answer-enduring bonds are formed between one make and one female
dichotomous traits - answer-traits that occur in one form or the other, never in
combination
true-breeding lines - answer-breeding lines in which interbred members always produce
offspring with the same trait, generation after generation
dominant trait - answer-the trait observed in the first generation when parents that have
different traits are bred
recessive trait - answer-A trait that reappears in the second generation after
disappearing in the first generation when parents with different traits are bred
Phenotype - answer-An organism's physical appearance, or visible traits.
Genotype - answer-genetic makeup of an organism
