Chapter Test 3 Athropology
Gene flow and genetic drift work
work in opposite ways
The process by which inheritable (genetic) traits are passed along to offspring because they made the parents better suited to their environment enabling them to survive or thrive to produce more offspring (eg. the white moths/black moths, white tree bark/black tree bark) is
Natural Selection
The observation of some phenomenon followed by a hypothesis, experimentation, testing of theories, and descriptions of findings is called
The scientific method
Human brains are 25 percent of their eventual weight ______.
at birth
When someone has been to war and returns with symptoms of PTSD, causing the person to develop anxiety and eventually high blood pressure and stomach ulcers, this illustrates ____________
biological processes
The biocultural paradigm emphasizes that human behavior is determined by
both our biology and our environment
A culture-bound syndrome
is a mental illness that is unique to a culture
Neuroplasticity is
the flexibility of the brain
A phenotype is
the visible characteristic of an individual
Psychological anthropology grew out of the culture and personality school developed by Ruth Benedict and her associates.
true