According to your textbook, one possible way genes might influence personality is by affecting ______________
A) cellular division
B) life expectancy
C) brain chemicals
D) the probability of having twins
Answer: C
Rationale: While scientists have not identified a specific gene or genes involved in the expression of neuroticism, agreeableness, or any other trait, genes that code for specific brain chemicals that are related to personality have been identified.
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a. People overestimate the consistency of their own behavior. b. People underestimate the consistency of other people's behavior. c. People ignore information supporting an external attribution for someone's action. d. People ignore information supporting an internal attribution for someone's action.
Research on child sexual abuse shows that
a. it seldom has long-lasting effects on adjustment, because most victims don't remember the abuse. b. it seldom affects the physical health of adult women. c. although it often has immediate psychological consequences, long-term psychological consequences are relatively rare. d. victims suffer a number of psychological consequences, both immediate and long term.
One religious practice from Brazil that conflicts with Western-based opinions regarding mental health is __________
a) mediumship. b) peyotism. c) Jainism. d) ritual trance.
The Macintosh computer is "user friendly" because
(a) most of the information needed to use it is in the environment (b) the users' and designers' conceptual models are close together (c) the control information is meaningful rather than arbitrary (d) all of these (e) none of these