Term
| Menopause involves a decline in |
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Definition
a. attachment
b. social identity
c. maturation
d. fertility |
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Term
| Peoples reactions to our genetic dispositions constitue part of our |
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Definition
a. personal space
b. temperament
c. individualism
d. enviroment |
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Term
compated with ferternal twins, identical twins are
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Definition
a. less similar in their risk of developing Alzheimer's disease and less similar in risk of being emotionally unstable
b. more similar in their risk of Alzheimers disease and equality similar in risk of being emotionally unstable
c. equally similar in their risk of developing Alzheimers disease and more similar in risk of being emotionally unstable
d. more similar in the risk of developing alzhimers diseas and more similar in risk of being emotionally unstable |
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Term
| Adoptive parents are LEASE likely to influence ____ of their adopted children |
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Definition
a. religious beliefs
b. personal traits
c. moral values
d. political attitudes |
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Term
| intese and reactive infants become unusually anxious and aroused when facint new or strang situations. this best illistrates the importance of |
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Definition
a. the x chromosome
b. individualism
c. temperament
d. personal spance |
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Term
| in emphasizing that heredity's effects on behavior depend on a person's home environment, psychologists are highlighting the imporatnce of |
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Definition
a. gender schemas
b. nature-nurture interactions
c. collectivism
d. infividualism |
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Term
| which of the following is a major source of genetic diversity |
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Definition
a. gender typing
b. mutations
c. individualism
d. personal space |
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Term
| the prevalence of genetically predisposed traits that have a reprodictive advantage is best explains in terms of |
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Definition
a. behavior genetics
b. natural selection
c. gender typing
d. gender schemas |
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Term
| it has been suggested that older men in all cultures tend to marry women younger than themselves because men are genetically predisposed to seek female features associated with youthful fertillity. this suggestion best illistrates |
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Definition
a. behavior genetics
b. an evolitionary perspective
c. social learning theory
d. freudian psychology |
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Term
| premature babies are especially likely to gain weight if stimulated by |
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Definition
a. movement acceleration
b. touch and massage
c. sound and music
d. light and colors |
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Term
| as social gathering, latin americans may behave in a manner that north americans consider intrusive and overly expressive. this best illustrated the importance of being sensitive to differing |
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Definition
a. norms
b. behavior genetics
c. gender identities
d. genomes |
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Term
| dispays of self-effecting humility are most charateristic of those who value |
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Definition
a. gender schemas
b. gender typing
c. individualism
d. collectivism |
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Term
| over the last century, western parents have placed ___ priority on teaching children to respect and obey parents and ___ priority on teaching them loyalty to their country |
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Definition
a. inceasing: increasing
b. increasing: decreasing
c. decreasing: decreasing
d. decreasing: increasing |
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Term
| compared with males, females are more likely to base their sence of personal identity on their |
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Definition
a. gender
b. educational accomplishments
c. socially distinctive personally traits
d. social relationships |
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Term
| the acquisition of traditional masculine or feminine role is called |
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Definition
a. gender identification
b. behavior genetics
c. sexual orientation
d. gender typing |
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Term
| concepts of masculinity and feminity that influence our perceptions are called gender |
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Definition
a. schemas
b. complexes
c.roles
d. types |
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Term
| studies of the relative impact of nature and nurture on human differences in aggressiveness best illustrate the research efforts of |
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Definition
a. evolutionary psychologists
b. behavior geneticists
c. freudian psychologists
d. social learning theorists |
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Term
| chromosomes are composed of |
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Definition
a. deoxyrubonucleic acid
b. schemas
c. neutrotransmitters
d. synapses |
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Term
| two dividuals are most likely to differ in personality if they are |
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Definition
a. fraternal twins who were raised apart
b. identical twins who raised apart
c. fraternal twins who were raised together
d. identical twins who were raised together |
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Term
| adopted children are especially likely to have similar ____ if raised in the same home |
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Definition
a. personality traits
b. temperaments
c. religious beliefs
d. gene complexes |
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Term
| evolutionary psychologists attribute the human tendency to fear snakes and heights to |
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Definition
a. the x chromosome
b. collectivism
c. gender schemas
d. genetic predispotions |
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Term
| charles darwin suggested that the evolution of living organisms is guided by |
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Definition
a. gender schemas
b. natural selection
c. unconscious motives
d. social norms |
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Term
| critics of evolutionary psycholgy are particulary likely to emphasize that gender differenes in mate preferences are byproducts of |
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Definition
a. sex hormones
b. temperament
c. cultural practices
d. sex chromosomes |
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Term
| the tendency to exaggerate the impact of parents child-rearing practices on childrens personallity has been most characteristic of |
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Definition
a. freudian psychologists
b. evolutionary psychologists
c. behavior geneticists
d. gender schema theorists |
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Term
| teens who smoke typically have friends who smoke. to avoid overestimating the impact of peer pressure on teens smoking habits, it would make the most sense to consider the impact of |
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Definition
a. temperament on physical health
b. natural selection on gender typing
c. smoking preferences on friendship choices
d. personal space on connectedness |
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Term
| by inventing customs and passing them on to their peers and offspring, chimpanzees exhibit the rudiments of |
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Definition
a. individualism
b. personal space
3. culture
d. temperament |
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Term
| dr.matsuko's major research interest is the long-term effects of child-rearing practices on the psycological adjustment of offspring. it is most likely that dr.matusko is a ____ psychologist |
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Definition
a. biological
b. developmental
c. cognitive
d. psychodynamic |
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Term
| nutrients and oxygen are transferred from a mother to her devloping fetus through the |
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Definition
a. placenta
b. teratogens
c. overies
d. embryo
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Term
| when touched on the check, infants relexively |
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Definition
a. retract their arms
b. open their mouths
c. close their eyes
d. cry |
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Term
| the importance of schemas was most clearly highlighted by |
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Definition
a. erikson's psychosocial development theory
b. harlow's attachment theory
c. piaget's cognitive development theory
d. Kohlberg's moral development theory |
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Term
| two closed, pyramid-shaped beakers containing clearly identical amounts of a liquid are judged by a child to hold different amounts after one of the beakers is inverted. the child apparently lacks a |
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Definition
a. concept of conservation
b. capacity for habituation
c. secure attachment
d. sense of object permanence |
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Term
| a child's realization that others may have beliefs that the child knows to be fast best illustrates the development of |
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Definition
a. object performance
b. stranger anxiety
c. ecocentrism
d. a theory of mind |
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Term
| The process of imprinting occurs during a brief developmental phase known as |
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Definition
a. menarche
b. puberty
c. menopause
d. a critical condition |
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Term
| although 3-year-old Adam happily explores the attractive toys located in the dentist's waiting room, he periodically returns to his mother's side for brief moments. adam most clearly displays signs of |
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Definition
a. secure attachment
b. objective performance
c. conservation
d. egocentrism |
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Term
| "i dont care whether you want to wash the dishes, you will do so because i said so!" this statement is most representative of a ___ parenting style |
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Definition
a. formal operational
b. authoritarian
c. preconventional
d. authoritative |
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Term
| mark believes that choosing to violate government laws is morally justifiable if it is done to protect the lives of innocent people. kohlberg would suggest that this illustrates ___ morality |
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Definition
a. unoconventional
b. postconventional
c. conventional
d. preconventional |
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Term
| jessica acts so differently with her parents than with her girlfriends that she often thinks her personality is completely phony. erik erikson would have suggested that jessica is experiencing |
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Definition
a. egocentrism
b. insecure attachment
c. role confusion
d. fluid intelligence |
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Term
| neogenesis in the hippocampus is promoted by |
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Definition
a. intimacy
b. imprinting
c. conservation
d. aerobic exercise |
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Term
| which of the following terms refers to a person's accumulated knowledge and verbale skillls? |
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Definition
a. crystallized intelligence
b. concrete operational intelligence
c. fluid intelligence
d. form operational intelligence |
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Term
| compared with thier counterparts of 40 years ago, people in the western cultures today are marrying at a |
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Definition
a. older age and they are more likely to divorce
b. younger age and they are less likely to divorce
c. older age and they are less likely to divorce
d. younger age and they are more likely to divorce |
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Term
| questions about the extent of which maladaptive habits learned in childhood can be overcome in adulthood are most directly relevant to the issue of |
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Definition
a. continuity of stages
b. fluid or crystallized intelligence
c. stability or change
d. nature or nurture |
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Term
| for the unborn children of mother who smoke heavilty, nicotine is a |
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Definition
a. teratogen
b. fas
c. terminal decline
d. schema |
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Term
| a weel after birth, infants are able to distinguish between their mothers and strangers |
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Definition
a. body oders
b. faces
c. voices
d. tender touches |
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Term
| after nardia learned that penguins cant fly she had to modify her existing concept of birds. this bet illustrates the process of |
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Definition
a. conservation
b. accomodation
c. habituation
d. assimilation |
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Term
| During piaget's sensorimotor stage, children acquire a |
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Definition
a. sense of object permanence
b. theory of mind
c. capacity for abstract reasoning
d. concept of conservation |
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Term
| deficient social interaction and an impaired understanding of others states of mind is most characteristic of |
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Definition
a. object performance
b. autism
c. menarche
d. crystallized intelligence |
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Term
| marissa resents the burden and constrains of caring for her infant daughter and requently ignores her cried for attention. as a consequence for her daughter is most likely to display sighns of |
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Definition
a. accommodation
b. egocentrism
c. conversation
d. insecure attachment |
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Term
| peoples styles of romantic love in adulthood are most likely to reflect their childhood |
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Definition
a. egocentrism
b. theory of mind
c. social clock
d. attachment ecperiences |
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Term
| compared with the children of authoritarian parents, the children of authoritative parents are |
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Definition
a. more likely to develop a sense of self-reliance and less likely to demonstrate social competence
b.more likely to develop a sense of self-reliance and more likely to demonstrate social competence
c. more likely to develope a sense of self-reliance and more likely to demonstrate competence
d. less likely to develop a sense of self-reliance and less likely to demonstrate competence |
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Term
| females breasts are to ___ as male testes are to ___ |
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Definition
a. menopause: menarche
b. menarche: menopause
c. secondary sex characteristics: primary characteristics
d. primary characteristics: secondary sex characteristics |
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Term
| jarrus thinks he should obey his teachers only if they are carefully watching him. kohlberg would suggest that jarrud demonstrates a ___ morality |
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Definition
a. unvocentional
b. conventional
c. preconventional
d. postconventional |
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Term
| the process of developing a sense of identity during adolescence was highlighted by |
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Definition
a. piagets cognitive development theory
b. kohlbergs moral development theory
c. the harlows attachment theory
d. eriksons psychosocial development theory |
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Term
| as adults age they show the greatest declines in |
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Definition
a. a fluid intelligence and in the memory capacities needed to recall recently presente information
b. crystallized intelligence and in the memory capacities needed to recognize recently presented information
c. fluid intelligence and in the memory capacities needed to recognize recently presented information
d. crystallized intelligence and in the memory capacitites needed to recall recently presented information |
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Term
| according to erikson older adults can most effectively cope with the prospect of their own death if they have achieved a sense of |
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Definition
a. conventional morality
b. object permanence
c. integrity
d. conservation |
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Term
| mark thinks that language development over the life span requires a slow but steady shaping process. his belief is most directly relevant to the issue of |
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Definition
a. continuity or stages
b. secure or insecure attachments
c. fluid or crystallized intelligence
d. cross-sectional or longitudinal studies |
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Term
| the dramatic influence in americans premarital secual activity over the past half-century best illustrates that sexual behavior is influenced by |
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Definition
a. temperament
b. norms
c. testosterone
d. natural selection |
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Term
| definding ones identity in terms of ones extended family or work group is most closely associated with |
|
Definition
a. collectivism
b. personal space
c. individualism
d. temperment |
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Term
| a single ___ on the __ chromosomes plays a crucial role in the parental development of the testes |
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Definition
a. gender schema: x
b. gender schema: y
c. gene: x
d. gene: y |
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Term
| in the united states 30 years ago men were expected to initiate dates and women to select wedding gifts. this best illustrates aspects of |
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Definition
a. gender roles
b. gender identity
c. behavior genetics
d. individuallism |
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Term
| because he believes that crying is feminine trait 14-year-old george has difficulty admitting that a movie makes him tearful his experience best illustrates the impact of |
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Definition
a. behavior genetics
b. gender schemas
c. sex chromosomes
d. personal space |
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