What term did Galton use for the improvement of living organisms through selective breeding?
a. Phrenology
b. Eugenics
c. Anthropometry
d. Sociobiology
b. Eugenics
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What is one likely explanation for why cats and bats evolved a tendency to sleep many hours?
a. They have little risk of being attacked during their sleep. b. They are less physically active during the day than other species. c. They eat diets that are relatively low in calories. d. They have smaller brains, compared to other species of similar size.
Which of the following is a definition of self-concept?
a) The cognitive representations of who one is, that is, the ideas or images that one has about oneself, especially in relation to others, and how and why one behaves b) People's attributions of control over their behaviors and relationships as internal or external to themselves c) The tendency for individuals to underestimate the commonality of desirable traits and to overestimate their uniqueness d) The perception that each culture has a modal personality type, and that most persons in that culture share aspects of it
What type of test allows us to compare a sample mean with the population mean?
What will be an ideal response?
A young woman returns from a day at the beach to find she has developed a severe sunburn. Which neurons are sending the messages from her burned skin to her brain informing her of the pain from the burn?
a) sensory neurons b) motor neurons c) synaptic neurons d) association neurons