Threadlike structures made of DNA molecules that contain the genes
What are Chromosomes?
100
The study of the evolution of behavior and the mind, using principles of Natural Selection
What is Evolutionary Psychology?
100
Every nongenetic influence, from prenatal nutrition to the people and things around us
What is environment?
100
The enduring behaviors, ideas, attitudes, and traditions shared by a large group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next
What is Culture?
100
A set of expected behaviors for males and for females
What are gender roles?
200
a complex molecule containing the genetic information that makes up the chromosomes
What is DNA?
200
The principle that, among the range of inherited trait variations, those that lead to increased reproduction and survival will likely be passed on to succeeding generations
What is Natural Selection?
200
A person's characteristic emotional reactivity and intensity
What is temperment?
200
An understood rule for expected and accepted behavior
What is a norm?
200
The acquisition of a traditional masculine or feminine role
What is gender typing?
300
The biochemical units of heredity that make up the chromosomes; a segment of DNA capable of synthesizing a protein
What are Genes?
300
A random ERROR in gene replication that leads to a change in the sequence of nucleotides
What is a mutation?
300
The proportion of variation among individuals that we can attribute to genes
What is heritability?
300
The buffer zone we like to maintain around our bodies
What is personal space?
300
The theory that we learn social behavior by observing and imitating and by being rewarded or punished
What is the Social Learning Theory?
400
The complete instructions for making an organism, consisting of all the genetic material and its chromosomes.
What is a genome?
400
In Psychology, the characteristics, whether biologically or socially influenced, by which people define male and female
What is gender?
400
The dependence of the effect of one factor (such as environment) on another factor (such as heredity)
What is interaction?
400
Self-replicating ideas, fashions, and innovations passed from person to person
What are memes?
400
The theory that children learn from their cultures a concept of what it means to be male and female and adjust their behavior accordingly
What is the Gender Schema Theory?
500
These are the four nucleotide letters.
What are A, T, C, and G?
500
The scientists who bred foxes in order to experiment with changing personality traits
Who are Blyaev and Trut?
500
Explain the difference between identical and fraternal twins.
Identical- develop from single fertilized egg
Fraternal- develop from separate fertilized eggs
500
An experiment used _____ in order to study the effect of enriched or impoverished environments on the size of brain cells