Nature vs. Nurture Quiz

According to nativist philosophers, what is more important in determining behavior?

• Learning and the environment

• Biological hereditary factors

• Interaction with the world

• Social influences

Who among the following is an empiricist philosopher?

• Plato

• Aristotle

• Locke

• Descartes

What approach do most psychologists take in shaping behavior?

• Behaviorist

• Interactionist

• Empiricist

• Nativist

What are ingestive behaviors due to, according to psychologists?

• Cultural upbringing

• Learning and the environment

• Biological hereditary factors

• Social influences

What is the interaction process that involves genetic nature factors and environmental triggers?

• Classical conditioning

• Dive visa stress models

• Cognitive dissonance

• Operant conditioning

What must be present for a disorder like schizophrenia to develop, according to psychologists?

• Environmental triggers

• Social influences

• Learning and the environment

• Biological hereditary factors

When are epigenetics genes activated?

• During old age

• At birth

• In response to a life experience

• During adolescence

Who among the following assumes that knowledge comes from interaction with the world?

• Locke

• Aristotle

• Descartes

• Plato

What do interactionist psychologists suggest shapes behavior?

• Cultural upbringing

• Biological hereditary factors

• Learning and the environment

• Social influences

What is the term for the combination and interaction of nature and nurture influences?

• Interactionist approach

• Epigenetics

• Dive visa stress models

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