Question | Answer |
Every non-genetic influence from prenatal nutrition to the people and things around us | Enviornment/Nurture |
Study of the relative power and limits of genetic and enviornmental influences on behavior | Behavior Genetics |
Develop from a single fertilized egg, that splits | Identical Twins |
Develop from seperated eggs | Fraternal Twins |
A person's characteristic emotional reactivity and intensity | Temperament |
The proportion of variation among individuals that we can attribute to genes | Heritability |
Biochemical units of heredity that make up the chromosomes, a segment of DNA capable of synthesizing a protien | Genes |
The complete instructions for making an organism | Genome |
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 the succeeding generations | Natural Selection |
Random errors in gene replication that lead to a change in the sequence of nucleotides, the source of all genetic diversity | Mutations |
The study of the evolution of behavior and the mind, using the principles of natural selection | Evolutionary Psychology |
The enduring behavior, ideas, attitudes, and traditions shared by a large group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next | Culture |
An understood rule for accepted and expected behavior | Norm |
Self-replicating ideas, fashions, and innovativations passed from person to person | Memes |
The sex chromosome found in both men and women | X Chromosome |
The sex chromosome found only in men | Y Chromosome |
The most important of the male sex hormones | Testosterone |
A set of expectations(norms) about a social position, defining how a person should behave | Role |
A set of expected behaviors for males and females | Gender Role |
One's sense of being male of female | Gender Identity |
The aquisition of traditional masculine of feminine role | Gender-typing |
Theory that we learn social behavior by observing and imitating and by being rewarded of punished | Socil Learning Theory |
Theory that children learn fomr their cultures a concept of what it means to be male and female and that they adjust their behavior accordingly | Gender Schema Theory |