Exam 3: Biological Foundations: Roots in Neurons and Genes

Most of the research on mirror neurons was conducted with mice

One reason societies prohibit marriage between close blood relatives is so children are less likely to be homozygous for harmful recessive alleles

A nerve cell that fires both when a person acts and when a person observes the same action performed by someone else, as if the observer himself or herself were acting:

Which of the following factors would not be expected to predict externalizing problems:

Insufficient _______ is associated with various forms of mental disability and with disorders such as dyslexia and schizophrenia:

People's genes encourage them to seek out experiences compatible with their inherited tendencies.This is called:

Which of the following reflects a person's genotype most directly:

Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder appears to be caused by chromosomal abnormalities

Evocative gene-environment associations suggest that genes can influence the surrounding environment

A cell in the body's nervous system, consisting of a cell body, a long projection called an axon, and several er projections called dendrites:

Nonshared environments:

The process by which glial cells encase neurons in sheaths of the fatty substance myelin:

Synapses are:

When people who are genetically predisposed to be gregarious actively seek the company of others, it exemplifies an active gene-environment association

Which of the following correctly describes neuron proliferation:

Which of the following factors would be expected to influence experience-expectant processes:

The forming of synapses is called:

The social brain includes:

In gene-environment interactions, it is only genes (and not environments)that are identified as playing an active role in development

Shared environments: