The Biological Approach

According to biological psychologists, behaviour has:

• Evolved

• A genetic basis

• Been conditioned

• Been imitated from a role model

Which of the following is thought to influence behaviour, according to biological psychologists?

• Biological structures

• Neurochemistry

• Genetics

• The unconscious mind

• The desire to achieve self-actualisation

Natural selection is where ________ behaviours are selected in mates and therefore reproduced.

• Profitable

• Useless

• Kind

Which of the following can be examples of evolutionary advantageous behaviours?

• Attachment

• Being unafraid of heights

• A phobia of snakes

• Aggression

Which approach would argue against evolutionary advantageous behaviours such as phobias have been learned through classical and operant conditioning?

• Social learning theory

• Humanistic psychology

• The cognitive approach

• The behaviourist approach

___________ refers to the genes an individual possesses i.e. their genetic make-up.

Twin and adoption studies are used by biological psychologists to investigate the extent to which _______ influences behaviour.

• Genes

• Biological structures

• Neurochemistry

Twin studies involve comparing __________ rates between MZ and DZ twins

Twin studies involve comparing concordance rates between MZ twins and DZ twins. What percentage of genes do MZ twins share?

Twin studies involve comparing concordance rates between MZ twins and DZ twins. What percentage of genes do DZ twins share?