What Is the Effect of Adaptive Thermogenesis

question 151

Multiple Choice

What is the effect of adaptive thermogenesis?

• A) It explains why obese people frequently feel hot.
• B) It explains why all obese people are so overweight.
• C) It causes skinny people to become obese during adulthood.
• D) It may hinder weight-loss attempts in some overweight people.

Understand the evolutionary perspective on human behavior and its adaptiveness.

Identify different types of stress including work stress, maturational factors, and sociocultural factors.

Understand the stages of the body's reaction to stress via the general adaptation theory.

Recognize different ego-defense mechanisms and their manifestations.

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Definitions:

Milgram Experiment

A psychological experiment conducted by Stanley Milgram in the 1960s to study obedience to authority, where participants were instructed to administer electric shocks to another person.

Stanford University Prison Experiment

A psychological study conducted by Philip Zimbardo in 1971 at Stanford University, where students were assigned roles of prisoners and guards to explore the effects of perceived power.

Generalization

Drawing a conclusion about a certain characteristic of a population based on a sample from it.

Logical Support

The provision of reasons or evidence to justify a claim or argument.