Chapter 12
Biological Psychology · 8 exercises
Problem 1
With regard to criminal behavior, adopted children resemble their biological relatives more closely than their adoptive relatives. One explanation for this observation is a genetic influence. What is the other?
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Problem 3
True or false: Fear and anger are consistently harmful to health.
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Problem 4
How can stress lead to damage in the hippocampus?
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Problem 4
What are the contributions of the right hemisphere to emotional behaviors and interpreting other people's emotions?
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Problem 5
Given that monkeys with low serotonin turnover pick many fights and in most cases die young, what keeps natural selection from eliminating the genes for low serotonin turnover?
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Problem 5
Name one way in which PTSD differs from a normal stress reaction.
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Problem 5
On what basis might someone argue that good decision-making requires an intermediate amount of emotion-not too much or too little?
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Problem 7
How could a researcher use the startle reflex to determine whether some stimulus causes a person fear?
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