Chapter 4

Question 0

Behavior genetics

Answer 0

Study the relative power and limits of genetic and environmental influences on behavior

Question 1

Environment

Answer 1

Every non genetic influence

Question 2

Genes

Answer 2

DNA segments
Self regulating
Triggered by environment

Question 3

Identical twins

Answer 3

Develop from same fertilized egg

Question 4

Fraternal twins

Answer 4

Develop in separately fertilized eggs

Question 5

Temperament

Answer 5

A persons characteristic emotional reactivity and intensity

Question 6

Interaction

Answer 6

The interplay that occurs when the effect if one factor (ex:environment) depends on another factor (ex: heredity)

Question 7

Evolutionary psychology

Answer 7

Focus mostly on what makes us so alike as humans

Question 8

Natural selection

Answer 8

Used by psychologists to understand roots of behavior and mental processes

Question 9

Traits

Answer 9

Selected by conferring a reproductive advantage

Question 10

Evolutionary psychology of human sexuality

Answer 10

What will most likely produce child?

Question 11

Peer influence

Answer 11

Children attempt to fit into a group by conforming

Question 12

Individualist

Answer 12

Focus on individual/self

Question 13

Collectivist

Answer 13

Focus on group

Question 14

Social learning theory

Answer 14

Proposes that we learn gender behavior like any other (reinforcement, punishment, observation)

Question 15

Gender schema theory

Answer 15

Suggests we learn a cultural recipe of how to be male or female which influences our gender-based perceptions and behaviors

Question 16

Culture

Answer 16

Behaviors, ideas, attitudes, values and traditions shared by a group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next