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Exam 8: The Biological Viewpoint: Behavioral Genetics and Psychophysiological Perspectives on Personality

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When examining the genetic influence on religiousness over time, it was found that the genetic influences seems to have:

A) Increased
B) Decreased
C) Remained relatively stable
D) Decreased during young adulthood but increased during late adulthood
E) Decreased during young adulthood but stabilized from middle adulthood on

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Question 32

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Alice works as a firefighter, volunteers as a smoke jumper, and likes to engage in parasailing when she has some leisure time. Alice's temperament rating would be classified as:

A) Cerebrotonia
B) Somatotonia
C) Physiotonia
D) Viserotonia
E) Ectomoratonia

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David was born with a deformed left hand. He never played organized baseball, but he did develop his knowledge of the game enough to be a manager for the local farm team. This illustrates the role biological factors play in:

Nervous Ned is a second-year medical student and shows an extremely negative emotional response to his first viewing of an actual heart operation. In contrast to his classmate Steady Eddie, it is likely that Ned's _______ is easily activated.

A researcher uses the technique of _______ to assess the extent to which shy individuals display an increase in the size of their pupil as they are asked to interact with an attractive individual as part of an experiment on stress in social situations.

People in the business of promoting diet products would be most interested in contacting individuals who are high along the _____ dimension.

Jamie enters a reception for new employees that also includes many of the area managers who will be evaluating her job performance in the future. She remembers from her last job how such a situation was used by these managers to create first impressions that seem to affect their subsequent ratings of the job performance of new employees. As a result of recalling these past memories, she is very cautious of what she says and does around individuals at this reception. According to the reinforcement sensitivity theory, Jamie's thoughts, feelings, and behavior in this situation are being guided by her:

Steve is depressed and is receiving electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) . Although we do not know for sure, ECT seems to work because it will:

In comparison to low sensation seekers, high sensation seekers tend to:

Jan and Jane are twins that developed from the same fertilized egg, which makes them _____ twins.

A personality psychologist compares the personality of little eight-year-old Jackie with the personality of her biological parents and the two adults she has been living with since she was 2 months old. The results indicate that Jackie's personality is closer to her birth parents than to the personality of the individuals with whom she has been living for eight years. These results provide support for the _____ perspective.

Sue's doctor requested that she be allowed to analyze a very small piece of tissue from Sue's amniotic sac to look for the presence of any genetic defects in Sue's fetus. Sue's doctor is conducting:

It was noted that individuals with the personality of introversion were more likely to have _____ blood type than individuals with a characteristically emotional personality.

A researcher compares the brain chemistry of employees who are conscientious and not conscientious when it comes to arriving up to work on time, turning in their work assignments, staying within the limits of their budgets, and responding in a timely manner to electronic requests for information. The researcher would most likely be comparing the individuals for different levels of certain:

Sheldon used _____ ratings to classify individuals into 343 possible body types.

Based on reinforcement sensitivity theory, when Heidi saw a co-worker from her office that she thinks is spreading rumors about her at work at the mall, her _______ (BIS) was activated to the point that she immediately decided to turn in the opposite direction and walk to another part of the mall.

To assess the stress tolerance of a group of police recruits, the training officer creates a simulation in which a collection of professional actors starts yelling personal insults while standing toe-to-toe with the recruits. Immediately afterwards, the training officer collects a blood sample from the recruits to the level of ______ as a measure of their response to the stress.

The genetically determined expected range of an individual's level of chronic happiness is referred to as the:

Based on what she learned in her psychology of personality course, Lisa gives all the students in her freshman English class a test to assess their behavioral activation and inhibition system functioning. Based on their scores, Lisa would be best advised to develop a motivation system for getting her students to do their assignments that emphasizes rewards for those students with _____ scores.

To study aggression, Dr. Striker compares the aggressive tendencies within a group of family members with a random sample of individuals interviewed at a mall. Dr. Striker is using a method of research know as: