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Ch. 3 Psych

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