Question 1

Of the following, the best way to separate the effects of genes and environment in research is to study

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A)   fraternal twins.
B)   identical twins.
C)   adopted children and their adoptive parents.
D)   identical twins raised in different environments.

Question 2

Depending on environmental conditions, specific genes can be either

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A)   proteins or chemicals.
B)   active or inactive.
C)   identical or fraternal.
D)   structured or unstructured.

Question 3

Evolutionary psychologists attribute the human tendency to fear snakes and heights to

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A)   gender.
B)   the female chromosome.
C)   temperament.
D)   genetic predispositions.

Question 4

An infant's temperament refers most directly to its

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A)   ability to learn.
B)   social connectedness.
C)   emotional excitability.
D)   physical health.

Question 5

The study of influences on gene expression that occur without a DNA change is called

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A)   molecular genetics.
B)   epigenetics.
C)   behavior genetics.
D)   evolutionary psychology.

Question 6

When the effect of one factor (such as environment)  depends on another (such as heredity) , we say there is a(n)  ________ between the two factors.

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A)   norm
B)   positive correlation
C)   negative correlation
D)   interaction

Question 7

The genome is the complete

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A)   collection of sexual characteristics regulated by the chromosomes.
B)   range of traits that contribute to reproductive success.
C)   set of genetic material in an organism's chromosomes.
D)   set of interactions between genes and environments.

Question 8

Through natural selection, the traits that are most likely to be passed on to succeeding generations are those that contribute to

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A)   temperament.
B)   survival.
C)   aggressiveness.
D)   social power.

Question 9

Compared with fraternal twins, identical twins are

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A)   less similar in their risk of developing Alzheimer's disease and less similar in risk of being emotionally unstable.
B)   more similar in their risk of developing Alzheimer's disease and more similar in risk of being emotionally unstable.
C)   equally similar in their risk of developing Alzheimer's disease and more similar in risk of being emotionally unstable.
D)   more similar in their risk of developing Alzheimer's disease and equally similar in risk of being emotionally unstable.

Question 10

Gender refers to the ________ characteristics by which we define male and female.

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A)   genetic
B)   hormonal
C)   universally agreed-upon
D)   biologically and socially influenced

Question 11

We are likely to ________ the personality similarities among children in the same family, and we are likely to ________ the personality similarities between parents and their children.

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A)   overestimate; underestimate
B)   underestimate; overestimate
C)   underestimate; underestimate
D)   overestimate; overestimate

Question 12

In emphasizing that heredity's effects on behavior depend on a person's home environment, psychologists are highlighting the importance of

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A)   the double helix.
B)   a pruning process.
C)   temperament.
D)   nature-nurture interactions.

Question 13

The genome is best defined as

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A)   a complex molecule containing genetic information that makes up the chromosomes.
B)   a segment of DNA.
C)   the complete instructions for making an organism.
D)   the code for synthesizing protein.

Question 14

Gay men report ________ interest in uncommitted sex and ________ interest in their partner's physical attractiveness than do lesbian women.

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A)   more; less
B)   less; more
C)   more; more
D)   less; less

Question 15

Dmitry Belyaev and Lyudmila Trut successfully domesticated wild foxes by means of

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A)   a pruning process.
B)   selective mating.
C)   epigenetics.
D)   hormone injections.

Question 16

Environmental influences on personality traits are most clearly highlighted by comparing

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A)   identical twins raised together with fraternal twins raised apart.
B)   identical twins raised together with fraternal twins raised together.
C)   identical twins raised apart with fraternal twins raised together.
D)   identical twins raised together with identical twins raised apart.

Question 17

Professor Assad suggested that a cautious attitude toward sexual encounters has proven to be more reproductively advantageous to women than to men because the birth process is more time-consuming for women than for men. This suggestion best illustrates the logic of a(n)  ________ theory of sexual behavior.

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A)   evolutionary
B)   social learning
C)   Freudian
D)   epigenetic

Question 18

Infant rats deprived of their mothers' normal licking had more ________ that block access to the "on" switch for developing the brain's stress hormone receptors.

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A)   genomes
B)   neurotransmitters
C)   sex chromosomes
D)   epigenetic molecules

Question 19

DNA is a complex

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A)   sex hormone.
B)   genome.
C)   molecule.
D)   synapse.

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