Mulitiple choice quiz

Take the quiz to test your understanding of the key concepts covered in the chapter. Try testing yourself before you read the chapter to see where your strengths and weaknesses are, then test yourself again once you’ve read the chapter to see how well you’ve understood.

1. The abilities that a person is born with fall under which of the following headings?

  1. nature
  2. temperament
  3. reflexes
  4. mpulses

Answer:

a. nature

2. Outside of inborn abilities, a person is affected by external influences that collectively contribute to         learning. Such characteristics fall under which of the following headings?

  1. empiricism
  2. conditioning
  3. adaptation
  4. nurture

Answer:

d. nurture

3. According to the ________, the differences that exist between groups of people, and between individuals within each group, are explainable as being due to a potential (in intelligence or some other ability or characteristic), that is passed over generations through reproduction.

  1. hereditarian
  2. progenecist
  3. propogationist
  4. eugenitarian

Answer:

a. hereditarian

4. “Evolutionary psychology” has as a primary concern which of the following?

  1. the continuity between the behavior and psychology of modern humans with their evolutionary ancestors due to the adaptations made by those ancestors
  2. the development of new behaviors or psychological functions due to adaptations to changing environmental challenges in the modern world
  3. the changes produced in an individual, through practice and experience, that are passed on to their progeny
  4. the changes that occur in a species through the experiences of the breeding parents being passed on to offspring through reproduction

Answer:

a. the continuity between the behavior and psychology of modern humans with their evolutionary ancestors due to the adaptations made by those ancestors

5. Which of the following proposes that human mental abilities are due to biological inheritance (think it through).

  1. hereditarianism
  2. naturalism
  3. biological determinism
  4. a & c

Answer:

d. a & c