Behavioral Genetics and Evolutionary Psychology: Heredity, Environment, and Natural Selection

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Psychology - Developmental Psychology

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What contains information for producing proteins and influences specific characteristics?

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What develops from a single fertilized egg that splits?

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What develops from separate fertilized eggs?

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What studies our differences and weighs the effects of heredity and environment?

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What compares identical twins to fraternal twins to measure heritability?

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What compares adoptees with their biological and adoptive parents?

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What studies why humans are alike using natural selection to understand behavior?

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What describes men's tendency to think about and initiate sex more often?

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What describes males' natural selection and mating preferences?

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What describes females' natural selection and mating preferences?

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What are the three things acknowledged by the evolutionary perspective?

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What process involves unused neural connections disappearing or weakening?

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What does early postnatal experiences affect in terms of development?

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What encompasses behaviors, ideas, attitudes, values, and traditions shared by a large group of people?

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What are the rules for accepted and expected behavior within a group?

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What focuses on the independent self?

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What gives priority to one's group over individual goals?

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What determines sex biologically speaking?

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What chromosomes are associated with females?

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What chromosomes are associated with males?

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What are expectations about how men and women should behave, influenced by culture?

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What is the perception of self as either male or female?

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What theory suggests that gender-linked behavior is learned through observation and imitation?

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What is the study of how humans grow, develop, and change throughout the life span?

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What debate involves traits inherited from parents versus environmental influences?

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What are the three major issues in development?

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What is the union of egg and sperm called?

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What are the three stages of prenatal development?

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What stage of prenatal development begins at fertilization and ends at implantation?

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What stage involves the formation of major organs, excluding sex organs?

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What stage involves organs increasing in complexity and age viability around 6 months?

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What are the influences on prenatal development?

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What are agents that can negatively impact prenatal development?

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What are the two assumptions in cognitive development?

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What assumption involves incorporating new experiences into existing theories?

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What assumption involves modifying theories based on experiences?

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What are Piaget's four stages of cognitive development?

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What stage of Piaget's cognitive development occurs from birth to 2 years old?

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What is the understanding that objects and events continue to exist even when they cannot be seen?

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What stage of Piaget's cognitive development occurs from ages 2-7 years?

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What is the inability to distinguish one's own perceptions from someone else's perspective?

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What is the belief that inanimate objects have lifelike qualities?

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What involves focusing attention on one characteristic to the exclusion of all others?

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What is the ability to determine quantity or amount in different arrangements?

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What stage of Piaget's cognitive development occurs from ages 7-11 years?

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What stage of Piaget's cognitive development occurs from age 11 to adulthood?

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What are Kohlberg's three posed moral dilemmas?

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What dilemma involves punishment and rewards in Kohlberg's theory?

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What dilemma involves rules and approval of others in Kohlberg's theory?

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What dilemma involves abstract principles in Kohlberg's theory?

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What is the fear of strangers that coincides with crawling?

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What is the strong emotional connection between infants and their caregivers?

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What reasoning suggests attachment forms due to a need for bodily contact?

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What is used to measure attachment in infants?

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What are the four attachment styles?

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What attachment style involves playing comfortably and being easily comforted upon return?

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What attachment style involves indifference to caregiver's presence and ignoring upon return?

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What attachment style involves staying close to the caregiver and not being comforted upon return?

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What attachment style involves appearing dazed and confused, and refusing to look at the caregiver?

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What are the two influences on attachment?

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What are the four parenting styles?

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What parenting style expects unquestioned obedience?

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What parenting style sets high and realistic standards and encourages communication?

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What parenting style makes few rules?

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What parenting style is not involved in the child's life and provides only basic physical needs?

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What marks the beginning of adolescence and occurs earlier in girls?

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What involves organs directly involved in reproduction growing larger during puberty?

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What are physical signs of maturity not related to reproduction?

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What is the period from 18-25 years old called?

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What changes occur in adulthood regarding physical and sensory abilities?

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What are the five stages of grief?

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