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Nature vs. Nurture Quiz

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

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

a)

Learning and the environment

b)

Biological hereditary factors

c)

Interaction with the world

d)

Social influences

2.

Who among the following is an empiricist philosopher?

a)

Plato

b)

Aristotle

c)

Locke

d)

Descartes

3.

What approach do most psychologists take in shaping behavior?

a)

Behaviorist

b)

Interactionist

c)

Empiricist

d)

Nativist

4.

What are ingestive behaviors due to, according to psychologists?

a)

Cultural upbringing

b)

Learning and the environment

c)

Biological hereditary factors

d)

Social influences

5.

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

a)

Classical conditioning

b)

Dive visa stress models

c)

Cognitive dissonance

d)

Operant conditioning

6.

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

a)

Environmental triggers

b)

Social influences

c)

Learning and the environment

d)

Biological hereditary factors

7.

When are epigenetics genes activated?

a)

During old age

b)

At birth

c)

In response to a life experience

d)

During adolescence

8.

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

a)

Locke

b)

Aristotle

c)

Descartes

d)

Plato

9.

What do interactionist psychologists suggest shapes behavior?

a)

Cultural upbringing

b)

Biological hereditary factors

c)

Learning and the environment

d)

Social influences

10.

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

a)

Interactionist approach

b)

Epigenetics

c)

Dive visa stress models

d)

Nature vs. Nurture

11.

What is the term for the genetic nature factor that predisposes an individual to a disorder?

a)

Biological hereditary factors

b)

Cognitive dissonance

c)

Epigenetics

d)

Dive visa stress models

12.

What is the term for the environmental triggers that must be present for a disorder to develop?

a)

Dive visa stress models

b)

Biological hereditary factors

c)

Cognitive dissonance

d)

Epigenetics

13.

What is the term for genes that become expressed in response to a life experience?

a)

Biological hereditary factors

b)

Epigenetics

c)

Dive visa stress models

d)

Cognitive dissonance

14.

According to empiricist philosophers, where does knowledge come from?

a)

Biological hereditary factors

b)

Social influences

c)

Learning and the environment

d)

Interaction with the world

15.

What is the term for the approach that suggests both nature and nurture interact to shape behavior?

a)

Nature vs. Nurture

b)

Interactionist approach

c)

Epigenetics

d)

Dive visa stress models