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| show | Yes.
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| show | Control the construction of the amino acids.
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| Having an extra chromosome is associated with: | show 🗑
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| show | May have blue eyes.
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| Heritability estimates | show 🗑
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| show | Overestimated due to emergenesis.
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| show | is not reflective of genetics.
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| show | determines how bent a protein is.
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| The thickness of a guys' muscles reflect | show 🗑
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| show | It does not leave the blood.
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| show | norms.
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| show | more; less.
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| The gender gap in aggression is LEAST likely to pertain to ________ another person. | show 🗑
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| show | genetic influences.
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| show | interaction.
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| show | individualism.
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| The importance of romance in marriage relationships is most strongly emphasized in cultures characterized by | show 🗑
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| Our selective exposure to those life experiences that are best suited to our unique temperaments best illustrates the interaction of | show 🗑
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| Identifying specific DNA sequences associated with the traits of anger and anxiety best illustrates a potential benefit of | show 🗑
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| show | heritable traits can be influenced by social environments.
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| Compared with women, men are ________ likely to feel comfortable about having casual sex with different partners and ________ likely to cite affection as a reason for their first sexual intercourse. | show 🗑
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| Men rape women much more frequently than women rape men. Evolutionary psychologists would be most likely to explain this in terms of sex differences in | show 🗑
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| Gender differences in verbal fluency are consistent with evidence that part of the | show 🗑
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| show | genes.
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| Cultural diversity best illustrates our | show 🗑
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| show | X chromosome from her father & mother.
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| show | more likely to be emotionally expressive and less likely to be punctual.
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| cautious attitude toward sexual encounters has proven to be more reproductively advantageous to women than to men because the birth process is time-consuming. This suggestion best illustrates the logic of a(n) ________ theory of sexual behavior. | show 🗑
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| show | the genome.
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| The ability to repress memories that are painful is almost universal in humans. This suggests that this ability is the result of: | show 🗑
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| Unconditioned responses are more likely than conditioned responses to reflect the effects of: | show 🗑
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| Which of the following is probably not a reflection of the genome? | show 🗑
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| show | genes in the ability to use grammar.
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| Genes are similar to language in that both are: | show 🗑
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| In theory mutations should increase the variability in people. This will result in a higher: | show 🗑
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| show | an experiment.
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| Which of the following is most likely to be helpful to someone suffering from Gender role confusion and gender identity confusion? | show 🗑
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| Behavior genetics is one way to approach the _____ issue. | show 🗑
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| show | women are usually attracted to dominant males, while males are usually attracted to females who appear to be young and healthy.
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| show | nurture; nature.
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| show | temperaments.
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| show | religious beliefs; personality traits.
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| show | more aggressive behavior patterns than most girls.
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| The preservation of innovation best illustrates the survival value of | show 🗑
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| The capacity to screen and select human fertilized eggs for such desirable personality traits as friendliness and emotional stability is one of the potentials of | show 🗑
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| Adopted children grow up to be | show 🗑
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| female children exposed to excess testosterone during prenatal development subsequently exhibit more “tomboyish” behaviors than most girls. To avoid overestimating the influence of prenatal hormones on these behaviors, we should note that these children | show 🗑
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| show | social learning theorists.
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| show | environment.
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| In everyday behavior, men are LESS likely than women to | show 🗑
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| The impact of our cultural backgrounds on the development of our personal values best illustrates the influence of | show 🗑
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| show | personality traits.
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| show | fear; similar.
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| Cross-cultural research on human development indicates that | show 🗑
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| show | social connectedness.
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| show | molecular behavior genetics.
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| Flashbulb memories are probably the result of: | show 🗑
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| show | an interaction between genes and the environment.
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| DNA is important for determining the distinction between: | show 🗑
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| show | structure and function of.
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| show | body weight.
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| show | there was a statistically significant difference between the groups.
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| A counseling psychologist would be interested in: | show 🗑
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| show | proximity.
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| Individualism is to collectivism as ________ is to ________. | show 🗑
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| show | a biopsychosocial approach
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| Carlos was born with cataracts in both eyes. Even though they were removed when he was 5, his lack of visual experiences during early childhood makes it likely that he has experienced | show 🗑
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| Those who defend evolutionary psychology against criticism are most likely to suggest that evolutionary principles | show 🗑
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| Pat is normally very restless and fidgety, whereas Shelley is usually quiet and easygoing. The two children most clearly differ in | show 🗑
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| show | social modesty.
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| show | synapses.
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| show | family environment.
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| show | temperament.
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| show | overestimate; overestimate.
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| show | strengthen neural connections at the location that processes the experiences.
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| show | independence; interdependence.
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| Parents in Westernized cultures are more likely than parents in Asian cultures to encourage children to value | show 🗑
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| show | perceive simple friendliness as a sexual come on.
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| Because Marla is the first girl in her fourth-grade class to sexually mature, she is sometimes teased and rejected by her classmates. Marla's sense of social isolation and embarrassment result from the interaction of | show 🗑
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| show | person-to-person differences within cultural groups are larger than the differences between groups.
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| Girls typically play in ________ groups than do boys and, during their teens, girls spend ________ time with friends than do boys. | show 🗑
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| An aggressive person may not always behave aggressively. This may reflect the effects of _____ on this behavior. | show 🗑
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| An evolutionary psychologist might be interested in noting: | show 🗑
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| Evolutionary psychology may explain observational learning as the result of: | show 🗑
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| show | the similarities and differences between human and monkey thought processes.
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| Evolutionary psychologist might be interested in: | show 🗑
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| show | correlation.
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| show | the median individualist score would be higher for those with a Y chromosome than those who do not have one.
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| show | an evolutionary psychologist.
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| Charles Darwin noticed that many species of animals had developed characteristics with no survival value. His theory that these characteristics had evolved to attract a mate is called | show 🗑
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| show | depends too much on hindsight explanations of human behavior.
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| Chromosomes are located within human | show 🗑
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| show | are genetically predisposed.
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| Evolutionary psychologists would be most likely to attribute gender differences in attitudes toward casual sex to the fact that men have ________ than do women. | show 🗑
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| show | stable over time.
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| If a genetic predisposition to fear darkness contributes to reproductive success, that trait will likely be passed on to subsequent generations. This best illustrates | show 🗑
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| show | natural selection.
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| show | genes than by home environment.
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| Social roles are especially likely to be central to people's self-identity in ________ cultures. | show 🗑
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| Adoptive parents are most likely to influence the ________ of their adopted children. | show 🗑
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| show | individualism.
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| Brittla spends a lot of money on cosmetics and expensive clothing in order to attract a desirable mate. According to evolutionary psychologists, Brittla's behavior is a product of | show 🗑
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| Compared with Asian parents, North American parents today place | show 🗑
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| show | adaptive capacity.
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| show | parental behavior is only one of many factors that influence children's' behavior.
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| Genetic influences on personality traits are most clearly highlighted by comparing ________ with ________. | show 🗑
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| Flashbulb memories are probably the result of: | show 🗑
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| show | differences in the genome.
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| Evolutionary psychology may explain observational learning as the result of: | show 🗑
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| A heritability estimate is most akin to; | show 🗑
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| show | biopsychosocial.
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| show | perspectives.
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| Compared with men, women are more likely to talk with others to | show 🗑
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| Parents can most effectively increase their influence on their children by | show 🗑
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| Compared with men, women experience a greater risk of | show 🗑
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| The belief that boys are more independent than girls is a | show 🗑
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| show | self-regulating.
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| show | gender typing.
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| show | norms.
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| show | evolutionary.
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| Prenatal testosterone secretions exert one of their earliest influences on | show 🗑
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| Lacking any exposure to language before adolescence, a person will never master any language due to the ________ of unemployed neural connections. | show 🗑
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| Evolutionary psychologists have suggested that men are ________ likely than women to prefer mates with a fertile-looking appearance and ________ likely than women to prefer mates with wealth and social status. | show 🗑
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| Compared with northern Europeans, people from Mediterranean cultures are | show 🗑
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| Compared with many Asian and African parents, today's Westernized parents are more likely to teach their children to value | show 🗑
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| show | behavior geneticist.
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| The ability to recall memories is dependent on _____. The ability to recognize answers is dependent on _____. | show 🗑
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| Some individuals develop cognitive maps more readily than others. This may be explained by: | show 🗑
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| Individualism and collectivism are probably learned through: | show 🗑
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| Which of the following might be an operational definition of gender? | show 🗑
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| A heritability estimate is most akin to; | show 🗑
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| show | biopsychosocial.
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| Studies of individualism versus collectivism would be most interesting to | show 🗑
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| show | language accents.
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| Although identical twins have been shown to have some amazing psychological similarities, one should be cautious about attributing these similarities to genetic factors because | show 🗑
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| show | less; less.
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| Gender differences in verbal fluency are consistent with evidence that part of the | show 🗑
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| The tendency to classify various occupations as masculine or feminine has often led men and women to limit themselves to an unnecessarily restricted range of career options. This best illustrates the impact of | show 🗑
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| Compared with identical twins, fraternal twins are ________ similar in neuroticism and ________ similar in risk of divorcing. | show 🗑
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| show | gender schemas.
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| Genes provide the code for the production of | show 🗑
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| show | heritable.
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| show | the genome.
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| Gender role is likely to reflect the effects of: | show 🗑
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| The study of learning typically: | show 🗑
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| Because it is heritable, the size of Wernicke's area: | show 🗑
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| That nonhuman species do not speak as we do suggests that _____ may influence the ability to use language. | show 🗑
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| show | natural selection.
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| A study compares identical twins with fraternal twins to determine the heritability of body weight. What is the independent variable in this study? | show 🗑
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| The study of the role of genes in behavior is most closely tied to which of the following approaches to psychology? | show 🗑
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| show | reproductive success.
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| show | gender roles.
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| Professor Shankar believes that her students' most important personal characteristics are those that distinguish them as uniquely different from most other people. Her attitude best illustrates one of the consequences of | show 🗑
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| Compared with men, women are more likely to talk with others to | show 🗑
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| show | genetically similar individuals who have been raised in dissimilar environments.
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| When male and female student research assistants at Florida State University sexually propositioned an attractive person of the opposite sex, their invitations were accepted by | show 🗑
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| Which of the following would you MOST likely observe on extended visits to foreign countries? | show 🗑
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| People are most likely to notice the impact of environmental influences on behavior when confronted by | show 🗑
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| show | the processes of memory, the contents of memory.
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| Environmental influences on personality traits are most clearly highlighted by comparing | show 🗑
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| Dante is healthier than his twin brother because he developed with a better placental barrier against viruses. This best illustrates the impact of ________ on development. | show 🗑
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| Compared with those in cultures that value individualism, people in collectivist cultures are especially likely to value personal | show 🗑
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| show | providing hindsight explanations for human behaviors.
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| show | social learning theorists.
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| show | impact of cultural expectations on human sexual behavior.
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| Lynnae is usually timid and fearful, whereas her sister Eileen is typically relaxed and cheerful. The two sisters are most strikingly different in | show 🗑
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| Evolutionary psychologists would be most likely to predict that | show 🗑
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| An integrated understanding of gender differences in behavior in terms of gender norms, sex-related hormones, and individual expectations regarding gender-appropriate behavior is most clearly provided by | show 🗑
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| Evolutionary psychology would be most helpful for understanding the ________ human aggression. | show 🗑
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| show | natural selection.
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| The labels “easy,” “difficult,” and “slow-to-warm-up” are used to refer to differences in an infant's | show 🗑
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| show | self-regulating.
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| Research on brain development suggests that repeated learning experiences seem to | show 🗑
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| show | genetically dissimilar individuals who have been raised in similar environments.
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| When Mr. Thompson lived overseas for a year, he was very surprised at how much respect he received from people simply because he was an older person. His sense of surprise suggests that he had NOT previously lived in a culture characterized by | show 🗑
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| show | the serial position effect.
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| show | Genes in preparing the ability to use grammar.
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| In theory mutations should increase the variability in people. This will result in a higher: | show 🗑
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| The nature-nurture issue is directly addressed by: | show 🗑
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| In a group discussion, women are ________ likely than men to express support for others' opinions. As group leaders, women are ________ likely than men to promote a democratic leadership style. | show 🗑
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| show | adolescent sons.
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| show | more socially independent and less interested in religion.
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| Those who suggest that choices we make today determine what our future will be like are emphasizing the importance of | show 🗑
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| According to evolutionary psychologists, our predisposition to overconsume fatty junk foods illustrates that we are biologically prepared to behave in ways that promoted the ________ of our ancestors. | show 🗑
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| show | an evolutionary perspective.
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| show | more men than women in political leadership positions.
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| show | the interaction of nature and nurture.
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| As people progress through adulthood, women become | show 🗑
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| show | set of genetic material in an organism's chromosomes.
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| show | reproductive success.
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| Religious and ethnic diversity are most likely to be appreciated in a culture characterized by | show 🗑
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| show | wanted no part of kissing; did not accept
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| show | an interaction between genes and the environment.
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| Behavior genetics is one way to approach the _____ issue. | show 🗑
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| show | differences in the behavior patterns of Asians and Americans.
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| Those who inappropriately attribute children's troubling personality traits to inadequate parental nurture should be reminded of the importance of | show 🗑
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| show | genetic influences.
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| Ginger wants to marry someone who will provide financial security for her children. Evolutionary psychologists would most likely attribute Ginger's motivation to | show 🗑
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| show | parental influences.
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| show | more likely to contribute to a child's English language accent.
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| show | differences in the behavior patterns of Asians and Americans.
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| show | genetic predispositions.
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| Studies of identical twins who had been reared apart has most clearly increased scientific appreciation for the importance of ________ in personality development. | show 🗑
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| show | genetic predispositions.
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| Children raised in the same family are not especially likely to have similar personalities. This most clearly implies that we should be cautious about attributing personality to | show 🗑
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| In comparison to parental influence, peer influence is | show 🗑
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