A Psychologist Is Being Interviewed on a Local News Program

question 29

Multiple Choice

A psychologist is being interviewed on a local news program regarding the recent problems with school violence. The psychologist suggests that we need to change the environments in which our children are being raised by reinforcing the behaviours we would like to see our children demonstrate. This psychologist is most likely associated with which psychological perspective?

• A) behavioural
• B) humanistic
• C) cognitive
• D) psychodynamic

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Definitions:

Homologous Gene

Genetic sequences that are shared by different species and have been inherited from a common ancestor.

Coalescent Events

Theoretical points in time where genetic lineages are assumed to have converged to a common ancestor in population genetics models.

Linkage Disequilibrium

Linkage disequilibrium exists for any two loci if the occurrence of an allele at one of the loci is nonrandomly associated with the presence or absence of an allele at the other locus.