Which of the following is LESS highly canalized?

A) Learning to sit up
B) Learning to crawl
C) Learning to speak two-word utterances
D) Intelligence

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of the ecological approach?

A) It has its roots in psychology and anthropology.
B) It emphasizes larger cultural contexts for cognition.
C) It emphasizes realistic,"everyday" contexts.
D) It emphasizes carefully controlled,laboratory experimentation.

Which statement best describes the connection between social support and wellness

A)  Social support provides more benefits for the elderly. 
B)  Social support typically has negative effects in the absence of stress. 
C)  Social support is a buffer only for people with stress-related illnesses. 
D)  Social support can serve as a buffer in times of high stress.

An integrated understanding of associative learning in terms of genetic predispositions,culturally learned preferences,and the predictability of certain associations is most clearly provided by

A) Pavlov's experiments.
B) Watson's behaviorism.
C) a biopsychosocial approach.
D) instinctive drift.

When dating couples wrestle with conflicts,those partners with a(n) ________ tend to see each other as engaging constructively.

A) Type A personality
B) external locus of control
C) low oxytocin level
D) optimistic outlook

The processes of__________involve impression formation.

A) person perception
B) social cognition
C) social networking
D) personal schema