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Personality Chpt 9
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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