Week 14-genetics & Inteligence

Question 0

What is the difference between nativism and empiricism?

Answer 0

Nativism: born with it
Empiricism: from the environment

Question 1

What is the text book definition of intelligence?

Answer 1

The general term used to refer to a persons ability to learn and remember information, to recognize concepts and their relations, and to apply the information to their own behaviour in an adaptive way.

Question 2

Behaviour genetics are?

Answer 2

The study of genetic influences on behaviour

Question 3

What is heritability?

Answer 3

The amount of variability in a given trait in a given population at a given time due to genetic factors; measured as h2 and sometimes referred to by this measure instead of the word.

Question 4

What is DNA?

Answer 4

Genetic material of all organisms that make up chromosomes; resembles a twisted ladder, with strands of sugar and phosphates connected by rungs made from nucleotide molecules of adenine, thymine, guanine and cytosine.

Question 5

What are chromosomes?

Answer 5

Threadlike structures in the nuclei if living cells; contain genes.

Question 6

What are genes?

Answer 6

Small units of DNA that direct the syntheses if proteins and enzymes and result in the expression of inheritable traits.

Question 7

What is the difference between genotype and phenotype?

Answer 7

A genotype is an organisms genetic make up. A phenotype is the outward expression of an organisms genotype; an organisms physical and behavioural characteristics

Question 8

The trait that is exhibit when an individual posses heterozygous alleles at that locus. What is it?

Answer 8

Dominant

Question 9

Trait that occurs only when it is expressed by homozygous alleles.

Answer 9

Recessive

Question 10

What are alternative forms of the same gene?

Answer 10

Alleles

Question 11

Define homozygous

Answer 11

Each parent contributes the same allele for a particular gene.

Question 12

Define heterozygous

Answer 12

Each parent contributes alleles for a particular gene.

Question 13

A trait that is influenced by more that one gene is called ….?

Answer 13

Polygenic

Question 14

What is concordance?

Answer 14

The expression of similarity in traits (or absence of traits) by both twins.

Question 15

Epigenetics is the study of what?

Answer 15

Study of heritable changes that occur without changes the DNA sequence. Some genes can be turned off or turned on.

Question 16

What are differentiated cells?

Answer 16

Less specialized cells whose profiles or characteristics have overtime grown increasingly different from and more specialized than other cells of the same type.

Question 17

What is the differential approach?

Answer 17

An approach in psychology devoted to tests and measures of individual differences in various psychological properties, including people’s abilities to solve problems.

Question 18

What is deviation IQ?

Answer 18

A procedure for computing the intelligence quotient; compares an individuals score with those received by other individuals of the same chronological age.

Question 19

_________: determining typical performance on a test

Answer 19

Standardization

Question 20

Name three cognitive attributes that contribute to intelligence

Answer 20

Efficient
Synchronized
Adaptable

Question 21

What is gene-environment covariation?

Answer 21

Wen exposed to environmental conditions is correlated with a persons genes. For example, a person who inherited extroverted characteristics might seek out a job that requires a lot of interaction with other people.