Research generally shows that children raised in the same family have similar personalities because the family environment is very much the same for every child

Why are human biologically prepared to fear snakes and not guns?

a. Guns kill fewer people than do snakes. b. Guns are not a natural phenomenon, whereas snakes do occur in nature. c. Snakes are more predictable than guns. d. Although also potentially involved in injury, guns are a more recent addition to our evolutionary history.

Your memories of personal information such as what you wore to work yesterday, what you ate for breakfast this morning, or who your spouse is, are stored in ______

a. procedural memory b. semantic memory c. episodic memory d. eidetic memory