Chapter 2 Questions Flashcards
The finding that kids who watch violent TV programs become more aggressive as adults that do kids who watch nonviolent TV programs can best be explained in terms of ____ influences.
Societal
Suppose that a new baby girl was born with no teeth. Unfortunately, because she had a great difficulty eating, she died of starvation before she could have any children. Thus, the trait of having no teeth was not preserved for future generations. This process is called ____ .
Natural selection.
What term refers to a new gene or combination of genes?
Mutation
Some species have bigger brains (for their body weight) than other species. What do big-brained species primarily use their brains for?
Having larger and more complex social structures.
Humans are best described as ____ .
Both cultural and social animals
In social psychology, the “nature vs. nurture” debate ____ .
Has been reframed, the debate now concerns how nature and nurture interact with one another and influence one another
All known cultures has rules about ____ .
Sex
Most social psychological research has been conducted in ____ .
The United States
The duplex mind contains what two systems?
The automatic and deliberate
In humans, the road to social acceptance is ____ .
Long
In a classic experiment with lines of different lengths, Solomon Asch found that ____ .
Perceptual judgements can be influenced by others
In a common analogy used by psychologists, the brain is compared to a computer. In that analogy, culture is like the ____ .
Internet
