A. Research as shown monozygotic twins to have much more similar personality traits than dizygotic twins
B. Both adoption studies and twin studies are consistent with a genetic influence on personality
C. Adoption studies have shown that environment plays no part in the development of personality
D. Children who are genetically more active and impulsive can cause their parents to be more responsive to their needs than other children
Related Mcqs:
- Experiments based on cognitive dissonance theory have examined the relationship between behavioural compliance and attitude change. Which one of the following conclusions can be drawn from these experiments?
A. Behavioural compliance never leads to attitude change
B. The lesser the inducement for compliance, the more the attitude change
C. The greater the inducement for compliance the more the attitude change
D. Behavioural compliance always leads to attitude change - Which, if any, of the factors below has probably NOT influenced human sexual behavior in evolution?
A. Women might choose a partner likely to provide reliability and stability
B. Women might be attracted to men who are successful and powerful
C. Men might guard the partner from the attentions of other men
D. None of the above-all are true - An individual behavior consists not only of his observable acts but also of all his reactions to inner states and to environmental factors of:
A. Reaction
B. Relationship
C. Experiences
D. Influence - A major area of research on power in organizations examines the experiences of women at work. Which of the statements given below is also true of women at work?
A. Stereotyping is no longer problem for women at work
B. It is illegal to treat pregnancy as a cause for dismissal
C. Women’s representation in the ranks of executives has remained the same in recent years
D. Women tend to use a transactional leadership style - Which of the following statements are true? 1. On a vernier acuity task, humans can discern the direction of very tiny offsets, but performance deteriorates with practice. 2. Different types of visual search have different behavioural characteristics and depend on different brain regions. 3. Walsh et.al. (1998) suggest that the right parietal lobe may be involved in setting up new templates in the conjunctions of, say, colour and form. 4 All of the above.
A. 1 & 2
B. 2 & 3
C. 1 & 3
D. 4 - Which of the following assertions about modularity in the brain is accurate?
A. Different aspects of a visual stimulus appear to be analysed by different modules in the brain
B. It is impossible to use an evolutionary explanation for modularity in the brain
C. Both (a) and (b)
D. Neither (a) nor (b) - For which of the following assertions is the empirical evidence strongest?
A. The two cerebral hemispheres are specialized to handle different types of cognitive tasks
B. People have a separate stream of consciousness in each hemisphere
C. Each hemisphere has it own cognitive style
D. some people are right-brained, while others are left-brained - A researcher wants to test the hypothesis that the number of bystanders affects the probability of helping behavior. She sets up three conditions, one with no bystanders, one with two bystanders and one with four bystanders. Which of the following is true?
A. there is one independent variable having three levels
B. there are three independent variables having one level each
C. there is one independent variable and three dependent variables
D. there is one independent variable having four levels - For best research control of genetic factors, which of the following should be used in experimentation?
A. siblings
B. identical twins
C. factor analysis
D. longitudinal approach - Current research considers human sexual behavior to be motivated by what factors in the brain?
A. External sensory stimuli and organism’s internal state
B. Pre-optic area and estrogen
C. Interpersonal attraction and financial stability
D. Intelligence and physical attractiveness
