The subfield of psychology concerned with the origins of behaviors and mental processes, their adaptive value, and the purposes they continue to serve is ______
a. evolutionary psychology c. behavior genetics
b. psychobiology d. psychoneuroendocrinology
a
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Since 1990 the number of individuals simply choosing to refer to themselves as "American" has:
a. decreased significantly. b. decreased marginally. c. stayed the same. d. increased marginally.
Research has found that when used for the short-term treatment of insomnia, sleep
medications do which of the following? a. increase the amount of REM sleep b. increase dopamine production in the brain c. increase respiration rate d. increase the total length of sleep
A behavior pattern marked by commitment, challenge, and control that appears to be related to stress resistance is called
A) ?hardiness. B) ?optimism. C) ?autonomic passivity. D) ?autonomic reactivity.
In Sperry's classic studies of eye rotation and regeneration of the optic nerves, he assessed the visual capacities of his subjects by assessing their ability to
A) strike accurately at fly-like stimuli. B) identify colors. C) perform a visual discrimination task. D) detect the presence of dim lights. E) solve maze problems.