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What’s an EEG?what does it measure?

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Electroencephalograms -measures brain waves

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What did kohlshutter study? And how?

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Sleep depth and with the amount of noise it took to wake some one up at a certain time in there sleep

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Deff of tabla rosa

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Concept that says people are born knowing nothing a “blank slate”/born with an open mind/learning is just a particular instinct

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For humans as a species are males and females similar?

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Yes very, compared to other species

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What is more developed in the human female than males?

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Corpus colusum, so the female is more likely to use her whole brain

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What is the female sex hormone? What can it be found in

( commercially)? What does it make women more sensitive too?

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Estrogen. Birth-control, and social situations

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What is the male sex hormone? What can it be found in? What does it make men more Likely todo?

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Testosterone. Steroids. Risk taking behavior.

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Nature deff?

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Born with all mechanics needed to survive

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Nurture deff?

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You learn through out your life

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Who founded the theory of evolution?

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Darwin

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When was Darwin’s theory published?

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Just before the civil war

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What’s a weird fact about Darwin’s family?

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Lots of intermarriage and they were very involved in the sciences

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Who was Darwin sent around the world with?

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British navy

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What was his most interesting specimen? Why?

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The finches. When he collected them from island to island the all had their differences to make them more fit to their environment but they all visibly had a common ancestor

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Biggest parts of Darwin’s evolutionary theory?

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Survival of the fittest

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What do social Darwinists believe?

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We should approach human reproduction, the same as animal husbandry

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What is eugenics?

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Out staining individuals should be encouraged to reproduce and the inferior should not be allowed to reproduce or completely taken from the population

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Who used an extreme form of eugenics?

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Nazis

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What part of the brain develops faster in females than males?what does this give women an advantage in? Til what age do women have the advantage?

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The frontal. In ability to process risk faster and deeper than men. Til mid 20’s.

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Sleep phenomenon is linked to what?

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Biological processes

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What was the big sleep question in the 60’s?

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Could astronauts sleep in space?

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Behavior genetics:

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

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Environment

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Every non genetic influence from prenatal nutrition to the people and things around us.

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Chromosomes

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Threadlike structures made of DNA molecules that contain the genes

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DNA

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A complex molecule containing the genetic information that Makes up chromosomes

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Genes

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The biochemical units of heredity that make up chromosomes; a segment of DNA capable of synthesizing a protein

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Genome

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The complete instructions for making an organism, consisting of all the genetic material in the organisms chromosomes

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Identical twins

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Twins who developed from a single fertilized egg that splits in 2 creating 2 genetically identical organisms

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Fraternal twins

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twins who develop from seep rate fertilized eggs. They are genetically no closer than brothers and sisters but they share a fetal environment

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Temperament

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A persons characteristic emotional reactivity and intensity

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Molecular genetics

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The subfield of biology that studies the molecular structure and function of genes

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Heritability

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The proportion of variation among individuals that we can attribute to genes the heritability of a trait may vary depending on the range of populations and environments studied

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Interaction

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The interplay that occurs when the effect of one factor (such as environment) depends on another factor (such as heredity)

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Epigenetics

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The study of influences on gene expression that occur without a DNA change

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Evolutionary psychology

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That study of the evolution of behavior and the mind using principles of natural selection.

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Natural selection

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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 succeeding generations

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Gender

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The biologically and socially influenced characteristics by which people define male and female

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Culture

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The enduring be be behaviors, ideas, attitudes, values and traditions shared by a group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next

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Norm

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An understood rule for accepted and expected behavior. Prescribe “proper” behavior

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Individualism

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Giving priority to ones own goals over group goals and defining ones own identity in terms of personal attribute rather than group identifications

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Collectivism

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Giving priority to the goals of ones group (often ones extended family or work group) and defining ones identity accordingly

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X chromosome

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The sex chromosome found in both men and women females have two X chromosomes and men only have one an X chromosome from each parent produces a female child

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Y chromosome

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The sex chromosome found j. Only males when paired with an X chromosome from the mother it produces a male child

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What does testosterone stimulate the growth of in fetus development?

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Male sex organs

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Role

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Set of expectations about a social position defining how those in then position defining how those in the position ought to behave

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Gender role

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A set of expected behaviors for males or for females

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Social learning theory

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The theory that we learn social behavior by observing and imitating and by being rewarded or punished

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Gender identity

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Our sense of being male or female

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Gender typing

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The acquisition of a traditional masculine or feminine role

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Transgender

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An umbrella term for describing people whose gender identity or expression differs associated with their birth sex

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What is SAD?

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Season affective disorder

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What kind of change does jetlag incure?

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Biological clock

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What are two circadian rhythms?

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Biological clock and menstural

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