Test Bank for Biopsychology 10th Edition by Pinel

Test Bank for Biopsychology 10th Edition by Pinel

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,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

, 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