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Pyschology exam 3
Final
Question | Answer |
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Literal meaning of Schizophrenia | split mind |
People with schizophrenia have | one personality |
hallmakr features of Schizophrenia | delusions and hallucinations |
what percent of the population will have a mood disorder in their lifetime? | up to 15-20% of the population |
most mood disorders are in the | mild to moderate range |
most mood disorders are | nonpsychotic |
elecroconvulsive therapy | is an effective treatment for severe mood disorder |
medications | may be an important part of treating mood disorders |
which sleep pattern characterizes major depression | being unable to stay asleep |
the basic body plan for all mammals is | female |
which is the most directly responsible for developmental differentiation of male genitalia | testosterone |
Women have ____phases of sexuals functioning and men have ____ phases. | four, four |
Best treatments for sexual dysfuction | education and communication training |
whehter one will want sex with women or with men is largely dertermined by | in utero hormone exposure |
after we are born | we learn what it is to be a man and what it is to be a women |
homosexual behaviour | is in some societies an essential part of masculinity. |
homosexual behavior | is seen in many animal species |
left untretead, most mental disorders | will improve with time |
the methods of shaman or witch doctor | may be beneficial |
the difference between shaman and psychiatrist | content of their belief systems |
the entire cognitive system, according to an evolutionary psychological perspective is | a complex collection of interrelated domain specific info processing devices |
tobby and cosmides argue that errors in processing will result when | there is a mismatch between the problem presented and the problem mechanism was designed to solve |
The frequentist hypothesis states taht | some human reasoning mechanics are designed to take as input frequency information and produce as output frequency information |
Tests of the frequent hypothesis revela that performance on the above problem_ called the medical diagnosis problem- follows which pattern, from worst to best? | medical diagnosis problme, frequency information, visual information |
Chomsky and Gould aruge taht language is | not explicable throught evolutionary insights |
One language evolved, | selection would not have limited language to its origical function |
the deadly innovations hypothesis proposes all of the following forces except | founder effects |
One study found taht each additional IQ point is associated with a 1 percent | reduction in relative risk of death |
the repulsion of incest evolved | to prevent interbreeding |
a key insight gleaned from evolutionary developmental psychology is | that selection can operate on the developmental thinking of psychological mechanisms |
according to evolutionary scientists, a theory of mind evolved to | aid in the prediction of other people's behavior |
Chisholm suggests taht variations in parental mating strategy and parental investments result in differences in | attachment security |
Frequency dependent selection requires that the payoff of a strategy ____as its frequency__________-. | increase, decreases |
people with high on the k-factor exhibit | early attachment to their biological father |
dysfyunction occurs when the___________- | mechanisms is not performing as it was designed to perform in the contexts in whcih it was designed to function. |
evolved mechanisms can fail in all but which of the following way? | deactivation failure |
evoked culture | phenomena |
in the first emipiracal test | population density |
psychopaths | helpfulness |
cross-cultural | evoked culture |