Which of the following is a criticism of the evolutionary approach to psychology?
A. It inaccurately explains why men and women have different social roles.
B. It considers the role of human experience in shaping personalities.
C. It deemphasizes the role of environment in human psychology.
D. It considers the influence of cultural diversity in shaping personalities.
Answer: A
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a. excitatory influence on serotonin receptors b. inhibitory action on dopamine receptors c. similarity to cocaine with regard to chemical makeup d. binding to serotonin receptors
The fetus begins to develop male sex organs if:
the SRY gene on the Y chromosome commands the sex organ to develop. the SRY gene from the Y chromosome envelopes the X signal. the X chromosome commands the sex organ to develop. no biochemical signal from the SRY gene is received.
One possible explanation for girls being ahead of boys in language progress is
A) that parents use more child-directed speech with their infant daughters than their infant sons. B) a biological advantage in earlier development of the left hemisphere of the cerebral cortex. C) that female infants initiate more "conversations" with caregivers than male infants. D) that adults reinforce female infants more than male infants when they begin to coo and babble.
______ is the disappearance or weakening of a learned response following the removal or absence of the unconditioned stimulus (in classical conditioning) or the removal of a reinforcer (in operant conditioning)
a. spontaneous recovery b. extinction c. stimulus discrimination d. stimulus generalization