The serotonin transporter gene has been found to influence the levels of serotonin in the brain and may:
A. be responsible for the personality trait of novelty seeking.
B. direct neurotransmitter functioning.
C. account for differences in anxiety levels from person to person.
D. increase aggression.
Answer: C
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a. vision. b. hearing. c. gustation. d. olfaction.
The belief that if an individual had a lot of blood, they would have a cheerful or sanguine personality stems from:
a. Egyptian physicians such as Imhotep, the chief physician to Pharaoh Zozer b. Vesalius's study of human anatomy c. Hippocrates' humoral theory d. William Harvey, an English physician
In the 1990s, the large increase in the number of adults reporting recovered decades-old memories of childhood sexual abuse probably was the result of:
A) memory misattribution produced by the prevalence of graphic sexuality shown on television. B) egocentric bias. C) the prevalence of psychoactive drugs and the permissive sexual culture in the 1960s, when these same individuals were children. D) suggestive techniques used by psychotherapists.
______________ is a method where researchers typically use interviews, phone surveys, and questionnaires to directly collect responses from the people being studied
A) Generalizing B) Random sampling C) Self-reporting D) Blind sampling