Mid Term Exam This requires a minimum of two substantive paragraphs
Mid Term Exam
This requires a minimum of two substantive paragraphs for each answer with a minimum total of 300 words for the combined paragraphs (not including the references). Use your textbook and outside academic references (not Wikipedia!) to answer the questions completely. Support your answers with source credits (citations and references).
We are using this below for our reading
Pinel, J. (2014). Biopsychology (9th edition). Pearson Publishing for our reading
Question 1
Discuss the behavioral genetics of individual differences, being sure to focus on common misunderstandings about heritability estimates.
Question 2
Two brain structures have been most frequently linked to human emotion. Which are they? Describe research that has implicated each in human emotion.
Question 3
Explain color constancy. What important points does it make about the mechanisms of color vision? Describe a theory of color vision that can explain color constancy, focusing on the evidence that led to the theory.
Question 4
Compare set-point and positive-incentive theories of hunger and eating. Compare their ability to predict two major research findings.
Question 5
Describe and discuss sexual dimorphisms of the mammalian brain.
How do they develop? Include cyclic gonadotropin release, the sexually dimorphic nucleus, and the aromatization hypothesis in your answer.