Who was the American scholar, who broadened psychology to include animal behavior, religious experience, and abnormal behavior and helped to establish psychology
as a separate discipline with his first book, Principles of Psychology?
a. John Watson
b. B. F. Skinner
c. Edward Titchener
d. William James
ANSWER: d
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If some of the axons innervating a given cell are destroyed or if they become inactive, what compensatory process takes place in the remaining presynaptic cells?
a. activation of previously silent synapses b. removal of toxins c. denervation supersensitivity d. collateral sprouting
As the heritability index for a particular behaviour decreases:
A) nature becomes more important than nurture. B) the rate of DNA methylation decreases. C) epigenetics plays less of a factor as a determinant of gene expression. D) genes explain less of the individual differences in that behavioural trait.
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