PSYC 2009 Week 5 Test – Question and Answers

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PSYC 2009 Week 5 Test – Question and Answers In ABC assessment, one assesses the Antecedent conditions of the behavior, the Behavior itself, and the _______________of the behavior. According to ev... olutionary psychology, psychological mechanisms evolve to solve ___________ problems. Contrary to Gall’s phrenology, contemporary research believe that complex action and thought patterns are execute by _____________. The process through which organisms acquire complex behaviors is call: In evolutionary psychology, the basic units of analysis are domain-_______, whereas the units of analysis of five-factor theory are domain-_________. Behaviorists claim that individuals’ behavior is cause by the environment. This belief classifies them as _____. Phineas Gage’s story suggests that there are links between ___________ functioning and personality functioning. That individuals growing up in the same household can be so different is best understood with the concept of ___________. Skinner valued reinforcement over punishment because the effects of punishment tend to be ____________. Because evolutionary psychologists try to understand how a given biological mechanism evolve, their theory is ….to be one of __________ cause. A heritability coefficient of 1.00 would indicate that all of the variability in personality is due to __________. Schwartz et al. (2003) use an fMRI machine to record the brain activity of adults as they were show novel vs. familiar faces. The adults who ….identify in childhood as have an inhibit temperament show more function in the amygdale than those who had earlier been classified as uninhibit. This evidence provides support for both the biological basis of temperament and of its _______________ [Show More]

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