A research psychologist wants to study people with a particular personality disorder. She places advertisements in newspapers that ask, Are you adventurous? Do you lead an exciting, impulsive life? If you are the kind of person who'd do almost anything for a dare, send your name... The researcher was interested in people with which personality disorder?
a. antisocial c. borderline
b. schizotypal d. intermittent explosive
Question 2
One theory for explaining the etiology of obesity suggests that humans inherited genes that helped our ancestors survive famine by storing fat. Unfortunately, that gene may be dysfunctional in an environment where high-fat foods are plentiful. This theory is called the ____.
a. thrifty genotype hypothesis c. fat storage hypothesis
b. fat gene theory d. evolutionary hypothesis
The threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) has been used as a model organism for the study
Water striders serve as a model organism for the study of sexual conflict between males and females.
The overlapping relationship among research, evidence-based practice
The greatest bone mass is found around age 30 for both men and women, with the later decline being f
While most people resist labels of deviance, some embrace them. In what different ways do these ...
People in poor, urban areas often find themselves in “food deserts"