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Ch. 3 Psych
| 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 |
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