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Chapter 3 Nature v. Nurture Test

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5 Matching Questions

  1. heritability
  2. gender role
  3. gender-typing
  4. fraternal
  5. interaction
  1. a the effect of one factor (environment) depends on another factor (heredity)
  2. b the proportion of variation among individuals that we can attribute to genes
  3. c set of expected behaviors for males and females
  4. d acquisiton of a traditional masculine/feminine role
  5. e twins who develop from separate fertilized eggs

5 Multiple Choice Questions

  1. one's sense of being male/female
  2. giving priority to one's own goals over group goals and defining one's identity in terms of personal attributes
  3. a person's characteristic emotional reactivity and intensity
  4. twins who devlop from a fertilized egg split in two
  5. threadlike structures made of DNA molecules that contain genes

5 True/False Questions

  1. behavior geneticssubfield of bio that studies the molecular structure and function of genes

          

  2. roleset of norms about a social position

          

  3. genomebiochemical units of heredity that make up chromosomes

          

  4. environmenta person's characteristic emotional reactivity and intensity

          

  5. gender schema theorytheory that children learn from their cultures a concept of what it means to be male/female and adjust behavior accordingly