Exam 3: The Nature and Nurture of Behavior

Genes transmit genetic instructions through this chemical compound.

Which of the following is typical of friendship in collectivist cultures?

Which of the following is true of the nature-nurture debate?

One reason that the genome is complicated is that

Donald Symons linked men's and women's mating differences to Robert Trivers's observation that all species sacrifice many resources in the conception and rearing of their young. Trivers's idea is known as the

Children who are raised in an urban environment are less likely to ____________________________ non-human animals compared with children reared in rural areas.

Psychologists have generally been quick to pick up the findings of behavior geneticists, especially those that pertain to personality characteristics.

The sex differences in physical size and strength, competition for mates, and ornamentation of the body in humans are

The unique code for creating a living organism is contained within

Twins that develop from a single egg and share100 of the same genes are called ____________ twins. Twins that develop from separate eggs and thus only share 50 percent of the same genes are called ____________ twins.

Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection is an undisputed fact of evolution similar in strength to the fact that dinosaurs are now extinct.

A gene-environment interaction is subtler than a gene-environment correlation because interactions result from differences between the phenotype and genotype of a child.

In Eagly and Wood's (1999) reanalysis of Buss's data on sex differences, they concluded that a greater level of equality between men and women in a particular culture, the

Any variation in a species that leads to better rates of survival and reproduction is known as a(n)

When comparing samples of middle-class and impoverished twins, researchers have found that

Any enduring and cooperating group such as the Girl Scouts, the ancient Greeks, or the citizens of the United States of America can be called a

Twins that have very similar psychological traits but were reared apart are better evidence for heritability than twins that were reared together.

Studies of adopted children conducted by behavior geneticists have revealed mixed results such that

The idea that people behave in variable ways depending upon the type of social organization in which they live is called

The non-biological, learned characteristics of individuals and their behavior can be called