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Pyschology exam 3
Final
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |