AP Psych 1.1

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Across
  1. 1. These type of influences are external, such as parenting styles, socioeconomic class, community cultural practices, and education.
  2. 2. In normal development, humans receive 23 of these from the mother and 23 from the father, for a total of 46.
  3. 3. The principle that the inherited traits enabling an organism to best survive and reproduce in a particular environment will (in competition with other trait variations) most likely be passed on to succeeding generations.
  4. 4. This is connected to traits from your biological parents such as height, predisposition to illnesses, and intelligence.
  5. 6. Interaction between genes and is a main topic of modern psychological research.
  6. 7. He argued that natural selection shapes behaviors as well as bodies.
  7. 8. the biochemical units of heredity.
  8. 10. (dizygotic) twins individuals who developed from separate fertilized eggs. They are genetically no closer than ordinary siblings, despite sharing a prenatal environment.
  9. 12. Genetics the study of the relative power and the limits of genetic and environmental influences on behavior
  10. 13. a random error in gene replication that leads to change.
  11. 15. the complete instructions for making an organism.
  12. 16. “above” or “in addition to” (epi) genetics; the study of the molecular mechanisms by which environments can influence genetic expression (without a DNA change).
  13. 17. This uses Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection to help us understand human behavior and mental processes.
  14. 18. the genetic transfer of characteristics from parents to offspring.
  15. 19. Behavior geneticists cannot ethically do the experiments they want to examine the influences of nature and nurture, but mother nature has provided the perfect population:
Down
  1. 1. The study of the evolution of behavior and the mind, using principles of natural selection.
  2. 5. every nongenetic influence, from prenatal nutrition to our experiences of the people and things around us.
  3. 9. issue the long-standing controversy over the relative contributions that genes and experience make to the development of psychological traits and behaviors. Today’s science views traits and behaviors arising from an interaction of nature and nurture.
  4. 11. These people focus on how genes and the environment contribute to differences in behavior and mental processes.
  5. 14. (monozygotic) twins individuals who developed from a single fertilized egg that split into two, creating two genetically identical organisms.