Psychology Quiz 3 Flashcards
Which of the following is an example of a phenotype?
A. a dominant and recessive allele combination
B. a specific segment of a chromosome
C. the influence of experience on the expression of genes
D. a segment of a person’s DNA that is different from most people
E. the ability to roll one’s tongue
E. the ability to roll one’s tongue
In the textbook, which of the following was given as an example of epigenetics in animals?
A. baby capuchin monkeys being raised apart from their mother
B. Siamese fighting fish placed together in a small fish tank
C. a mother mouse licking her pups
D. the brood parasite cowbird first coming out of its shell
E. All of the above are true
C. a mother mouse licking her pups
Which of the following is NOT true about Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection?
A. Organisms show variation within their population.
B. The “selection” of the organisms that survive and reproduce is a random process.
C. There is a tendency for all organisms to produce more offspring than their environment can
sustain.
D. Modification and, ultimately, adaptation of organisms happen from generation to generation, not
within an organism’s lifetime.
E. All of the above are true
B. The “selection” of the organisms that survive and reproduce is a random process.
In the textbook, the example of the large bright feathers of the male peacock was used to illustrate that:
A. natural selection is about the health of the population of the same species of organisms.
B. females are the sex that does the selecting when it comes to breeding and passing on genes.
C. there can be tremendous differences in the coloration of birds’ feathers, with some having extremely bright feathers like the peacock and others having dull gray feathers like the blue heron. However, both species can survive and thrive.
D. natural selection is about the survival and breeding of the individual and not what’s necessarily best for the population.
E. some animals can change their appearance dramatically within their own lifetime.
D. natural selection is about the survival and breeding of the individual and not what’s necessarily best for the population.
The social brain hypothesis is a hypothesis about which of the following?
A. the evolution of social behavior between humans
B. the rapid increase in the brain of humans during our evolution
C. a comparison of the limbic system in social versus nonsocial animals
D. the fact that humans are social animals also leads to discrimination towards those considered
outside our social group
E. the idea that social animals like humans, dolphins, and meerkats evolved larger areas of the brain
responsible for complex communication
B. the rapid increase in the brain of humans during our evolution
The subdiscipline of psychology interested in looking at how behaviors and psychological processes may have been shaped by natural selection is called:
A. Darwinian psychology
B. natural selection psychology
C. adaptation psychology
D. eugenics psychology
E. evolutionary psychology
E. evolutionary psychology
The greater the polygyny found in a species of animals, the greater the:
A. migration distance.
B. number of offspring produced by females.
C. chances of fewer offspring produced by females.
D. chances of the male and female looking alike.
E. sexual dimorphism
E. sexual dimorphism
In your textbook, which animal was given as an example of reciprocal altruism?
A. cleaner fish that swim under sharks
B. clown fish that live in a sea anemone
C. red ground squirrels
D. vampire bats
E. dolphins
D. vampire bats
The sweaty T-shirt experiment demonstrated which of the following?
A. Humans are attracted to people who have a different immune system than themselves.
B. Smell plays a significant role in human attraction.
C. Sexual attraction is diminished by smelling the sweat of other people.
D. There is sexual dimorphism even in body odor.
E. All of the above are correct
E. All of the above are correct
A ________ is a segment of DNA that codes for a protein.
A. chromosome
B. trait
C. gene
D. amino acid
E. phenotype
C. gene
How old is our species:
A) Modern-day Homo sapiens are around 300,000 to 400,000 years old.
B) Modern-day Homo sapiens have existed for no more than 200,000 but no less than 100,000 years.
C) Modern-day Homo sapiens first appeared approximately 50,000 years ago.
D) Modern-day Homo sapiens have been around for over 500,000 years.
No more than 200 thousand but no less than 100 thousand
