One day, you take your teenage niece to the zoo and she becomes particularly fascinated with the birds in the aviary. She asks you why they all seem to have differently shaped beaks
Use the research of Charles Darwin and Peter and Rosemary Grant to explain why animals look the way they do today, incorporating a discussion of natural selection.
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: The theory of natural selection proposed by Charles Darwin suggests that organisms that are well adapted to their environments will produce more offspring and therefore survive longer than those not so well-adapted. The Grants studied finches, their habits, environment, and population size. They took note of the ones that survived a terrible drought and why they survived when others didn't.
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An evaluation and interpretation of the results is to the _____ section as describing how the study was conducted is to the _____ section
a. Method; Results b. Discussion; Method c. Discussion; Abstract d. Abstract; Method
According to your textbook, the future of psychotherapy will include
a. a decrease in the use of group therapies and self-help groups run by paraprofessionals. b. more therapy being provided by psychiatrists and Ph.D.-level practitioners. c. more precisely targeted medical therapies with fewer side effects. d. greater use of long-term insight-oriented therapies.
We can use the mean from the distribution of sample means along with its standard deviation to determine the current mean by using its ______.
A. p value B. รก level C. z-score D. z-test
According to Bandura, personality is determined by
a. the interaction of personal variables and situational variables. b. traits that people inherit from their parents. c. expectations of the prevailing contingencies of reinforcement. d. the interaction of behavioral, environmental, and personal variables. e. the ability to learn vicariously.