Why would animals and humans have biological predispositions to learn certain behaviors? The behaviors have:
A. value for scientists to study
B. value for creating strife among groups
C. value for psychopathology
D. adaptive functions
Answer: D
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Which of the following statements is true of instinctive behavior?
A) Instinctive behavior tends to resist modification, even when it serves no purpose. B) Instinctive behavior varies among the members of the species in which it appears. C) Instinctive behavior evolves only when some form of punishment is involved. D) Instinctive behavior does not appear when an individual is reared in isolation from others of its kind.
As psychology emerged as a discipline, the focus of psychological research shifted from:
a. structuralism to functionalism to behaviorism b. functionalism to structuralism to behaviorism c. behaviorism to functionalism to structuralism d. structuralism to behaviorism to functionalism
Research using PET scans of human brains indicates that
a. the size of the midbrain connections is the most important feature for intelligence. b. higher scoring test takers used more glucose. c. lower scoring test takers used more glucose. d. brain activity is not related to problem-solving, but is related to one's emotional levels.
The perceptual process in which memory and other higher-level cognitive processes are used to interpret sensory information is known as
A. top-down processing. B. divided attention. C. bottom-up processing. D. sensory adaptation.