Chaper 3 - Nature Vs. Nurture

Question 0

The most important of the male sex hormones. Both male and females have it, but the additional __________ in males stimulates the growth of the male sex organs in the fetus and the development of the male sex characteristics during puberty.

Answer 0

Testosterone

Question 1

A set of expectations about a social position, defining how those in the position ought to behave

Answer 1

Role

Question 2

The sex chromosome found only in males. When paired with an __ sex chromosome from the mother, it produces a male child.

Answer 2

Y Chromosome

Question 3

The sex chromosome found in both men and women. Females have two, males have one.

Answer 3

X Chromosome

Question 4

Self replicating ideas, fashions, and innovations passed from person to person

Answer 4

Memes

Question 5

The buffer zone we like to maintain around our bodies.

Answer 5

Personal space

Question 6

An understood rule for accepted and expected behavior. These prescribe “proper” behavior

Answer 6

Norm

Question 7

The ending behaviors, ideas, attitudes, and traditions shared by a large group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next.

Answer 7

Culture

Question 8

The subfield of biology that studies the molecular structure and function of genes

Answer 8

Molecular genetics

Question 9

The dependence of the effect of one factor on another factor

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Interaction

Question 10

The proportion of variation among individuals that we can attribute to genes.

Answer 10

Heritability

Question 11

A persons characteristic emotional reactivity and intensity

Answer 11

Temperament

Question 12

Twins who develop from separate eggs. They are no genetically closer than brothers and sisters, but they share a fetal environment

Answer 12

Fraternal twins

Question 13

twins who develop from a single fertilized egg that splits in two, creating two genetically identical organisms

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Identical twins

Question 14

Every nongenetic influence, from prenatal nutrition to the people and things around us

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Environment

Question 15

The study of relative power and limits of genetic and environmental influences on behavior

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Behavior genetics

Question 16

In psychology, the characteristics, whether biologically of socially influenced, by which people define male and female

Answer 16

Gender

Question 17

The study of the evolution of behavior and the mind, using principals of natural selection.

Answer 17

Evolutionary psychology

Question 18

A random error in gene replication that leads to a change in the sequence of nucleotides; the source of all genetic diversity

Answer 18

Mutation

Question 19

The principle that, among the range of inherited trait variations, those that lead to increased reproduction and survival will most likely be passed on to succeeding generations

Answer 19

Natural selection

Question 20

The complete instructions for making and organism, consisting of all the genetic material in its chromosomes.

Answer 20

Genome

Question 21

The biochemical units of hereditary that make up the chromosomes; a segment of DNA capable of synthesizing a protein

Answer 21

Genes

Question 22

A complex molecule containing the genetic info that makes up the chromosomes

Answer 22

DNA

Question 23

Threadlike structures made of DNA molecules that contain the gene

Answer 23

Chromosomes

Question 24

A set of expected behaviors for males and set for females

Answer 24

Gender role

Question 25

The acquisition of a traditional masculine of feminine role

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Gender typing

Question 26

The theory that we learn social behavior by observing and imitating and by being rewarded or punished

Answer 26

Social learning theory

Question 27

The theory that children learn from their cultures a concept of what it means to be a male and what it means to be a female and that they adjust their behavior accordingly

Answer 27

Gender schema theory