Which of the following is not one of the intersections of nature and nurture in developmental psychology?
a. Gene expression
b. Gene-environment interactions
c. Natural selection of traits
d. Nature via nurture
Answer: c. Natural selection of traits
You might also like to view...
Your textbook discusses a recent study, with bilingual Arab Israeli students who were enrolled at a university in Israel. The fluently bilingual researcher spoke to students in either Arabic or Hebrew. The results of this study showed that these student:
a. understood the instructions better if they were tested in their first language (Arabic), even though they were supposed to be bilingual. b. understood the instructions better if they were tested in their second language (Hebrew), even though they were supposed to be bilingual. c. had more positive attitudes toward Jewish individuals when the researcher was speaking Hebrew. d. had more positive attitudes toward Jewish individuals when the researcher was speaking Arabic.
The rate of conditioning is affected by the degree to which the US is ___________ the occurrence of the CS
a. bi-pendant on b. contracted to c. contingent on d. ipsilateral to
Antidepressant drugs such as Prozac have shown _______ results in treating bulimia nervosa and _______ results in treating anorexia nervosa
a. effective; effective c. mixed; effective b. effective; mixed d. mixed; mixed
Items presented 20 degrees off centerline, in the right visual field, __________
a. will be processed by only the right eye and then initially processed in the brain by the occipital lobe in the left hemisphere b. will be processed by only the left eye and then initially processed in the brain by the occipital lobe in the left hemisphere c. will be processed by both eyes and then initially processed in the brain by the occipital lobe in the left hemisphere d. will be processed by both eyes and then initially processed in the brain by the occipital lobes on both sides