Skillful 4 Reading Quiz

Read Risk takers: Who are they? and check the causes discussed. You a have 5 minutes.

• Social background

• Brain chemicals

• Work experience

• Genetic Factors

• Age and Gender

Which of the following is the most appropriate thesis statement? Why? You have 1 minute.

• Wittman (2012) believes that risk-taking is inherited through our parent's genes.

• Wittman (2012)suggests that age, gender, brain, and biology cause risk-taking.

• Wittman (2012) states that risk-taking is determined by psychology rather than biology

Read Risk-takers: Who are they? again. Complete the statements with the correct word. Dopamine is only able to fill a cell when the receptor is not _______

• cautious

• active

• rats

• addictive

• four

Read Risk-takers: Who are they? again. Complete the statements with the correct word. In a study in New York, participants had to say if they were ___ about or keen on doing new activities.

• cautious

• active

• rats

• addictive

• four

Read Risk-takers: Who are they? again. Complete the statements with the correct word. The New York research produced similar results to studies conducted on ________

• caution

• traits

• rats

• animals

• people

Read Risk-takers: Who are they? again. Complete the statements with the correct word. Dopamine create a feeling of pleasure which some people find _____

• cautious

• desirable

• interesting

• addictive

• pleasurable

Read Risk-takers: Who are they? again. Complete the statements with the correct word. Sensation-seeking is a characteristic which causes people to seek _____ in new activities.

• caution

• active

• desire

• pleasure

• four

Read Risk-takers: Who are they? again. Complete the statements with the correct word. Zuckerman's research suggests the sensation-seeking trait has _________ key aspects to it.

• a lot

• five

• two

• three

• four

Read the text again. Is this sentence True, False, or Not given? Risk-taking is a characteristic like sensation seeking.

• True

• False

• Not given

Read the text again. Is this sentence True, False, or Not given? Whether a person has the sensation-seeking trait is partially decided by a person's biological makeup.

• True

• False

• Not given