Does the Ohio State Highway Patrol offer a ride-a-long program? Yes. The recruitment ride-a-long program is an informational experience which places prospective applicants with a working trooper for a pre-selected amount of time.
Evolutionary psychology. Evolutionary psychology is a theoretical approach to psychology that attempts to explain useful mental and psychological traitsâsuch as memory, perception, or languageâas adaptations, i.e., as the functional products of natural selection.
That said, psychologists who study attitudes agree that environmental factors--in particular, the nonshared environment, or a person's individual experiences outside the family, usually examined via twin studies (see page 46)--are consistently stronger in predicting attitudes than genetic ones, at least among adults.