Exam 3: Genes, Evolution, and Environment

Researchers in evolutionary psychology emphasize the evolutionary mechanisms that might help explain commonalities in areas of human psychology.

Evaluate the pros and cons of genetic testing.

Over the past century and a half, Darwin's ideas have been:

To transform surface structure into deep structure, children must:

Psycholinguists have found that adults consistently correct their children's syntax.

An intelligence quotient is a/an:

While many environmental factors can cause lower intelligence, it is unlikely that environmental factors can cause improved intelligence.

Which of the following environmental factors has NOT been shown to be associated with reduced mental ability?

Match these descriptions with the appropriate concept. -An interdisciplinary field of study concerned with the genetic bases of individual differences in behaviour and personality.

Most psychologists would agree that the evolutionary history of our species accounts for our preference for sweet tastes.

A language acquisition device is defined as an innate mental module that allows young children to develop language if they are exposed to an adequate sampling of conversation.

Identifying a single gene has been compared to searching for someone when all you know is that the person lives somewhere in Toronto.

In regard to heredity and environment, it would be accurate to say that:

Match these descriptions with the appropriate concept. -A field of psychology emphasizing the study of language.

The world would be a better place if certain kinds of genes prevailed.

Social Darwinism is the notion that the wealthy and successful are more reproductively fit than other people.

Evolutionary psychologists view the mind as a/an:

Dizygotic twins develop when a fertilized egg divides into two parts that develop into separate embryos.

Match these achievements with the appropriate person. -He argued that a child's mind at birth is a blank slate upon which experience writes.

In the year ________ an international collaboration of researchers called the Human Genome Project and a private company, Celera Genomics, both announced that they had completed a rough draft of a map of the entire human genome.