Part 5: TEST YOURSELF

TEST
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SELF NATURE, NURTURE, AND HUMAN DIVERSITY

Test yourself repeatedly throughout your studies. This will not only help you figure out what you know and don’t know; the testing itself will help you learn and remember the information more effectively thanks to the testing effect.

Behavior Genetics: Predicting Individual Differences

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1. The threadlike structures made largely of DNA molecules are called  .

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2. A small segment of DNA that codes for particular proteins is referred to as a  .

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3. When the mother’s egg and the father’s sperm unite, each contributes

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4. Fraternal twins result when

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5.  twins share the same DNA.

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6. Adoption studies seek to understand genetic influences on personality. They do this mainly by

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7. From the very first weeks of life, infants differ in their characteristic emotional reactions, with some infants being intense and anxious, while others are easygoing and relaxed. These differences are usually explained as differences in  .

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8.  is the proportion of variation among individuals that we can attribute to genes.

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9. Epigenetics is the study of the molecular mechanisms by which  trigger or block genetic expression.

Evolutionary Psychology: Understanding Human Nature

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10. Behavior geneticists are most interested in exploring  (commonalities/differences) in our behaviors. Evolutionary psychologists are most interested in exploring  (commonalities/differences).

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11. Evolutionary psychologists are most likely to focus on

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Culture, Gender, and Other Environmental Influences

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12. Individualist cultures tend to value ________; collectivist cultures tend to value ________.

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13. Psychologists define  as the biologically influenced characteristics by which people define males and females. The socially influenced characteristics by which people define men and women is  .

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14. Females and males are very similar to each other. But one way they differ is that

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15. A fertilized egg will develop into a boy if it receives a/n  chromosome from its father.

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16. Primary sex characteristics relate to _________; secondary sex characteristics refer to _________.

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17. On average, girls begin puberty at about the age of  , boys at about the age of  .

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18. An individual who is born with sexual anatomy that differs from typical male or female anatomy has a  .

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19. Gender role refers to our

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20. When children have developed a  , they have a sense of being male, female, or a combination of the two.