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1)For many years, psychologists addressing questions about human differences tended to fall into two camps. Those who emphasized the role of genes in human diversity were called: A)empiricists. B)behaviourists. C)nativists. D)psychoanalysts. 2)For many years, psychologists addressing questions about human differences tended to fall into two camps. Those who emphasized the role of learning and experience in human diversity were called: A)empiricists. B)evolutionary psychologists. C)nativists. D)psychoanalysts. 3)Edward L. Thorndike, one of the leading psychologists of the early 1900s, claimed that in the actual race of life the chief determining factor is: A)operant conditioning. B)classical conditioning. C)parent–child relationships. D)heredity. 4)John B. Watson would agree that: A)experience could write virtually any message on the blank slate of human nature. B)an impulse for young mammals to play and fool around may be biologically adaptive. C)just as a bird is designed to fly, human beings are designed to use language. D)men are genetically wired to be promiscuous and women to be monogamous. 5)Researchers in ________ emphasize the evolutionary mechanisms that might help explain commonalities in areas of human psychology. A)cognitive psychology B)evolutionary psychology C)social Darwinism D)sociocultural psychology 6)Prof. Sandoval emphasizes the evolutionary mechanisms that might help explain commonalities in human behaviour. She is most likely to consider herself a/an: A)cognitive psychologist. B)evolutionary psychologist. C)social Darwinist. D)sociocultural psychologist. 7)________ is an interdisciplinary field of study concerned with the genetic bases of individual differences in behaviour and personality. A)Behavioural genetics B)Social Darwinism C)Behaviourism D)Functionalism 8)Behavioural genetics is an interdisciplinary field of study concerned with: A)genetic bases of individual differences in behaviour and personality. B)processes by which individuals with genetically influenced traits adapt in a particular environment. C)estimating the heritability of various physiological and psychological traits within a group. D)evolutionary explanations of social behaviour in humans and other animals. 9)Which of the following best describes the position of most psychologists today on the nature–nurture issue? A)Nature and nurture interact to produce both our psychological and our physical traits. B)Nature is more important in producing our physical traits, while nurture is more important in producing our psychological traits. C)Nature produces our physical traits, while our psychological traits are produced by an interaction of nature and nurture. D)Some of our psychological traits are produced primarily by nature and some primarily by nurture, but nature is most important in producing our physical traits. 10)With regard to the interaction between genes and experience: A)genes can affect the experiences we have, but experience cannot affect genes. B)experience can affect genes, but genes cannot affect experience. C)both genes and experience can affect each other. D)the effects of genes and experience are independent.