Introduction to Psychology 10th Edition by Rod Plotnik,Haig Kouyoumdjian

Exercise 31

How inherited or genetic factors influence and interact with psychological factors-for example, the ways we behave, adapt, and adjust to our environments-is the focus of the field of behavioral (a) _____. Current thinking about genetic factors is that they do not fix behaviors but rather set a range for behaviors. Researchers estimate genetic influences with a measure that estimates how much of some behavior is due to genetic influences; this measure is referred to as (b) _____.