Test Bank for Biopsychology 10th Edition by Pinel
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, Chapter 2: Evolution, Genetics, and Experience
CHAPTER 2
EVOLUTION, GENETICS, AND EXPERIENCE: THINKING ABOUT THE
BIOLOGY OF BEHAVIOR
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS
1. The general intellectual climate of a culture is referred to as its
a. canon.
b. guano.
c. zeitgeist.
d. converging operations.
e. confounds.
Answer: C
Diff: 1
Page Ref: 21
Topic: Chapter 2 Introduction
Type: Factual
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. instinct.
b. Cartesian dualism.
c. traditional dichotomies.
d. psychology.
e. the brain.
Answer: C
Diff: 2
Page Ref: 22
Topic: Thinking about the Biology of Behavior: From Dichotomies to Interactions
Type: Factual
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3. The idea that the human brain and human mind are separate entities was formalized in the
1600s by
a. Hebb.
b. Locke.
c. Plato.
d. Descartes.
e. Pinel.
Answer: D
Diff: 2
Page Ref: 22
Topic: Thinking about the Biology of Behavior: From Dichotomies to Interactions
Type: Factual
4. Descartes’s philosophy was called
a. monism.
b. behaviorism.
c. ethology.
d. mentalism.
e. dualism.
Answer: E
Diff: 2
Page Ref: 22
Topic: Thinking about the Biology of Behavior: From Dichotomies to Interactions
Type: Factual
5. Nature is to nurture as
a. learning is to genetics.
b. behaviorism is to ethology.
c. genetics is to experience.
d. both A and B
e. both B and C
Answer: C
Diff: 3
Page Ref: 22
Topic: Thinking about the Biology of Behavior: From Dichotomies to Interactions
Type: Factual
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, Chapter 2: Evolution, Genetics, and Experience
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Copyright © 2018 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
, Chapter 2: Evolution, Genetics, and Experience
CHAPTER 2
EVOLUTION, GENETICS, AND EXPERIENCE: THINKING ABOUT THE
BIOLOGY OF BEHAVIOR
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS
1. The general intellectual climate of a culture is referred to as its
a. canon.
b. guano.
c. zeitgeist.
d. converging operations.
e. confounds.
Answer: C
Diff: 1
Page Ref: 21
Topic: Chapter 2 Introduction
Type: Factual
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. instinct.
b. Cartesian dualism.
c. traditional dichotomies.
d. psychology.
e. the brain.
Answer: C
Diff: 2
Page Ref: 22
Topic: Thinking about the Biology of Behavior: From Dichotomies to Interactions
Type: Factual
53
Copyright © 2018 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
, Chapter 2: Evolution, Genetics, and Experience
3. The idea that the human brain and human mind are separate entities was formalized in the
1600s by
a. Hebb.
b. Locke.
c. Plato.
d. Descartes.
e. Pinel.
Answer: D
Diff: 2
Page Ref: 22
Topic: Thinking about the Biology of Behavior: From Dichotomies to Interactions
Type: Factual
4. Descartes’s philosophy was called
a. monism.
b. behaviorism.
c. ethology.
d. mentalism.
e. dualism.
Answer: E
Diff: 2
Page Ref: 22
Topic: Thinking about the Biology of Behavior: From Dichotomies to Interactions
Type: Factual
5. Nature is to nurture as
a. learning is to genetics.
b. behaviorism is to ethology.
c. genetics is to experience.
d. both A and B
e. both B and C
Answer: C
Diff: 3
Page Ref: 22
Topic: Thinking about the Biology of Behavior: From Dichotomies to Interactions
Type: Factual
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