One Adoption Study Focusing on Behaviours Related to Anti-Social Personality

question 148

Multiple Choice

One adoption study focusing on behaviours related to anti-social personality disorder found the highest rates of criminal behaviour in sons when had criminal records.

• A) only their biological mothers
• B) both their biological and adoptive fathers
• C) only their biological fathers
• D) only their adoptive fathers

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Definitions:

Accommodation

In cognitive psychology, the process of modifying existing cognitive schemas or perceptions to incorporate new information.

Optic Nerve

The nerve that carries neural impulses from the eye to the brain.

Bottom-Up Processing

Analysis that begins with the sensory receptors and works up to the brain’s integration of sensory information.

Subliminal Priming

The use of stimuli presented below the threshold of conscious perception to influence thoughts, feelings, or actions.