biopsych

Question 1

What are hereditary (nature) factors?

Answer 1

physical traits, personality, intelligence

Question 2

What are environmental (nurture) factors?

Answer 2

family, culture, education

Question 3

What is the evolutionary perspective?

Answer 3

It looks at how natural selection causes certain behaviors for survival and reproduction

Question 4

What are eugenics?

Answer 4

A (very bad) practice to arrange reproduction in a way that will genetically modify the human population with certain “ideal” characteristics

Question 5

How do twin studies help study nature vs. nurture?

Answer 5

Their similar DNA will help compare traits influenced by genetic or environmental factors.

Question 6

How do family studies help study nature vs. nurture?

Answer 6

Tracking traits across generations and finding patterns help study hereditary factors.

Question 7

How do adoption studies help study nature vs. nurture?

Answer 7

Adopted children can be compared to both biological and adoptive families to study environmental factors.

Question 8

Draw a quick chart of the nervous systems.

Answer 8

nervous -> central + peripheral
peripheral -> autonomic + somatic
autonomic -> sympathetic + parasympathetic