A person with two recessive genes is considered to be ____ for that trait.

A. homozygous
B. heterozygous
C. unitary
D. marginal


Answer: A

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Compared to her friends, Alisa sleeps much less and is more likely to be __________.

A. overweight in five years B. unpopular in school C. obese for the rest of her life D. diagnosed with myopia

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Charles Darwin revolutionized biology by offering natural selection as an explanation for how physical characteristics of species evolved. How has his work influenced contemporary psychology?

a. It shows that the biological approach to studying psychology is most important. b. Natural selection has encouraged people to think more scientifically in general. c. Evolutionary thought shows that psychology must be limited to study of humans. d. Darwin applied his theory to behaviors such as emotional expressions, showing that natural selection is an important factor in understanding psychology.

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The abbreviation US stands for __________

a) unconditional statement. b) uniform conditioned subject. c) unconditional sensation. d) unconditioned stimulus.

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Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. When individuals respond in different ways to different stimuli, the process of responding to some stimuli, but not others is called discrimination learning. 2. Racial, ethnic, and religious prejudices are examples of discrimination learning. 3. A steep generalization gradient indicates that people respond greatly to stimuli not very similar to the training stimulus. 4. As is true of excitatory generalization, inhibition generalizes to stimuli quite dissimilar to the training stimulus. 5. Lashley and Wade contend an inability to discriminate between the training and test stimuli is responsible for stimulus discrimination.

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