Understanding Human Development: Genes, Environment, and Culture

Question 1 - 10 • School of thought that focuses on how much our genes and our environment influences our individual differences

Answer 1 – 10 • Behavior Genetics

Question 1 - 20 • Biochemical units of heredity that make up chromosomes

Answer 1 – 20 • Genes

Question 1 - 30 • Thread like structures made up of DNA that contain genes

Answer 1 – 30 • Chromosomes

Question 1 - 40 • A complex molecule containing the genetic information that makes up chromosomes

Answer 1 – 40 • DNA

Question 1 - 50 • Random errors in gene replication

Answer 1 – 50 • Mutation

Question 2 - 10 • Siblings developed from a single fertilized egg

Answer 2 – 10 • Identical Twins

Question 2 - 20 • What side entails the genetic code passed from parent to child

Answer 2 – 20 • Nature

Question 2 - 30 • This side involves all environmental influences from pre-natal development on

Answer 2 – 30 • Nurture

Question 2 - 40 • Siblings who share a fetal environment developed from different fertilized eggs

Answer 2 – 40 • Fraternal Twins

Question 2 - 50 • Degree to which traits are inherited

Answer 2 – 50 • Heritability

Question 3 - 10 • Studies show this group is influential in: School Performance, Smoking, and other behaviors

Answer 3 – 10 • Peers

Question 3 - 20 • This group is most influential in education, discipline, responsibility, orderliness, and charitableness

Answer 3 – 20 • Parental influences

Question 3 - 30 • Shared attitudes, beliefs, norms and behaviors of a group communicated from one generation to the next

Answer 3 – 30 • Culture

Question 3 - 40 • Understood rules for expected behavior

Answer 3 – 40 • Norms

Question 3 - 50 • This is critical for early brain development

Answer 3 – 50 • Enriched Environment

Question 4 - 10 • Name three of the four factors of culture

Answer 4 – 10 • Population Density, Climate, Resources, and technology

Question 4 - 20 • Giving priority to personal goals over group goals

Answer 4 – 20 • Individualism

Question 4 - 30 • Giving priority to goals of the group

Answer 4 – 30 • Collectivism

Question 4 - 40 • Cross-Cultural psychologist who called culture the software of our minds

Answer 4 – 40 • David Matsumoto

Question 4 - 50 • The desire to excel, A product of one’s culture and cultural influences

Answer 4 – 50 • Achievement Motivation

Question 5 - 10 • Principles that are true for people of a certain culture

Answer 5 – 10 • Culture Specific

Question 5 - 20 • Principles which are true for people of all cultures

Answer 5 – 20 • Universal Principals

Question 5 - 30 • Person’s perception of the source of control over fate of what happens in life

Answer 5 – 30 • Locus of Control

Question 5 - 40 • Western Cultures tend to have this where they control their fate

Answer 5 – 40 • Internal locus of control

Understanding Human Development: Genes, Environment, and Culture