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Personality Chpt 9
Question | Answer |
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behavioral genetics | attempts to explain how individual differences in behavior |
evolutionary psychology | attempts to explain how patterns of behavior that characterize all humans originated in the survival value |
eugenics | the belief that humanity could be improved through selective breeding |
cloning | the belief that it might be possible to produce a complete duplicate of a human being |
phenotype | the observable traits of a person |
genotype | underlying genetic structure |
heritability coefficient | (r mz - r dz) x2 |
association method | tries to determine whether most differences in a particular gene across most individuals |
alleles | different forms of the same gene |
epigenetics | determine how or even whether a gene is expressed during development |
mate selection | what one looks for in the opposite sex |
mating strategies | how one handles heterosexual relationships |
sexy son hypothesis | hot bad father means hot bad son |
psychopathy | a behavioral style of deception and deceit |
biological reductionism | reduces everything in the mind to biology |