In the Nurture Assumption, Judith Harris argues that the evidence indicates that family environment has_______on children’s personalities.

Related Mcqs:

1. Which of the following are NOT necessarily characteristics of an authoritarian personality? people with authoritarian personalities tend to:
   1.Have experienced harsh family rearing strategies.
   2.Hate their parents.
   3.Idolize power figures.
   4.Strive for a changing world order.

   A. 1 & 2
   B. 2 & 3
   C. 2 & 4
   D. 1 & 3

2. Experimental evidence indicates that the ability to judge the size of an unfamiliar object depends on _____________?

   A. motion cues
   B. depth cues
   C. time cues
   D. all of the above

3. In psychology the nature-nurture debate refers to the relative influences of __________________?

   A. paternal genes and maternal care
   B. genes and environment
   C. genotype and phenotype
   D. genotype and karyotype

4. The nature/nurture controversy considers the degree to which traits and behaviors are determined by _______________?

   A. genes or experience
   B. continuity or stages
   C. life-span stability or change
   D. maturation or genes

5. Which of the following do MPDs sometimes display when switching personalities?

   A. physical differences
   B. speech differences
   C. both
   D. None of these

6. A rare condition in which separate personalities exist in the same person is called:

   A. dissociative identity disorder
   B. split personality
   C. schizophrenia
   D. amnesia

7. Freud stressed the role of _______ in shaping our personalities.

   A. the structure of the mind
   B. the function of our behaviors
   C. our history of rewards and punishments
   D. the unconscious

8. Jamil and Qasim are identical twins, reared in different homes after their birth, due to the death of their parents. They are nineteen years of age and have personalities that differ sharply from each other. The reason of this difference in personality is most likely due to:

   A. the two having identical genotypes
   B. the environment
   C. heredity
   D. brain chemistry differences

9. Phobias can be very debilitating and distressing phenomena. Which, if any, of the following statements are correct in relation to Watson and Rayner’s (1920) research into them?
   1:Watson and Rayner speculated that the complexity of emotional responsiveness in adults might be explained by the conditioning of children’s simple emotional reactions when they are exposed to new stimuli
   2:Watson and Rayner found evidence for emotional from a test trial in which the rat was accompanied by the noise
   3:The fear reaction in Albert could be produced by a loud noise
   4:None of the above

   A. 1 & 2
   B. 1 & 3
   C. 2 & 3
   D. 4

10. Which of the following criticisms of family and couples therapies are valid?
    1: These treatments are not as effective as most individual treatments for problems relating to family or relationship conflict.
    2: The attraction of these therapies may reflect little more than the charisma of those who developed them.
    3: Bona fide treatments only produce beneficial outcomes for a minority of cases in 20 sessions or fewer.
    4: These has been a relative lack of research on many of these therapies.

    A. 1 & 2
    B. 2 & 3
    C. 3 & 4
    D. 2 & 4