Psych Midterm 2

Question 1

What are parts of the Biopsychosocial model that Williams discussed?

Answer 1

• Parents’ gambling behaviour is likely to play a role through modelling of the behaviour to their children
• A persons fallacies about gambling are likely to play a role
• Operant and classical conditioning processes are likely to play a role

Question 2

What out of the following are not considered risk factors for problem gambling? Having a big win when first starting, having parents who gamble, having gambling opportunities readily available, being over 50, or having other addictions?

Answer 2

Being older than 50

Question 3

True or False

Females typically exhibit greater variability in their reproductive success than males

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Out of the three following theories, which one is consistent with Henzi’s theory that we come to understand the world through acting upon it?

• Descartes notion of the innateness of knowledge
• Locke’s notion of empirical understanding of the world
• Piaget’s notion of constructivism

Answer 4

Piaget’s notion of constructivism

Question 5

Which of the following statements are true of the Fa’afafine?
A) Fa’afafine are generally not identified as such until well past puberty
B) Samoa represents a culture that defines two sexes and 3 genders

Answer 5

B

Question 6

True or False
There do appear to be some people who can carry on a cell phone conversation without associated decrements in a driving task

Answer 6

True

Question 7

True or False

People are pretty good judges of their own perceptual abilities and shortcomings

Answer 7

False

Question 8

True or False

A long history of multitasking in a persons daily life makes them better at task-switching in laboratory situations

Answer 8

False

Question 9

When two female monkeys are together and interrupted by a male what are the possible outcomes and how likely are they?

Answer 9

The propositioned female will…
2.5% go with the male
5% leave
92.5% go with the female

Question 10

Which of the following statements about gender are true based on Vasey’s distinction between sex and gender diversity.

• Gender can be defined on the basis of gametes
• Gender can be defined on the basis of chromosomes
• Gender can be defined on the basis of an individual’s behaviour
• Gender is clearly a dichotomous variable (there are only two possible variables)
• Classification of gender is consistent across societies

Answer 10

Gender can be defined on the basis of an individuals behaviour

Question 11

True or False

Compared to males, females are more discriminating in terms of their mate choice

Answer 11

True

Question 12

Define gender role expectations

Answer 12

Culturally prescribes rules associated with how individuals that are perceived to occupy a particular gender category should behave

Question 13

In Tinbergen’s 4 why’s the term Mechanistic refers to…

Answer 13

Immediate reasons why organisms do what they do on the proximal level

Question 14

True or False

Fa’afafine is simply a Samoan term for homosexual man

Answer 14

False

Question 15

In Tinbergen’s 4 why’s the terms Functional or Adaptive refer to

Answer 15

Evolutionary reasons why organisms do what they do on the ultimate level

Question 16

In Henzi’s lecture of innate knowledge Locke argued…

Answer 16

Locke argued that humans were born with no knowledge of the world, rather our minds at birth were “blank slates”

Question 17

According to Sadr how do people generally perform when given a primary task?

Answer 17

People perform quite well when only given one task to complete

Question 18

True or False
In the video shown in Sadr’s lecture, performance on the primary task was independent of whether or not people reported seeing the gorilla

Answer 18

False

Question 19

Define gender

Answer 19

• differences that exist on average between the males and females in terms of behaviour cognition and personality
• a system of meaning used to construct categories based on the concepts of “masculine” and “feminine”
• a system of categorizing anything based on the masculine and feminine characteristics attributed to them