Nature, Nurture, and Human Diversity Chapter 4

1. 1 Nature, Nurture, and Human DiversityChapter 4

2. 2 Nature, Nurture, and Human Diversity Behavior Genetics: Predicting Individual Differences Genes: Our Codes for Life Twin and Adoption Studies Temperament and Heredity Heritability Gene-Environment Interaction The New Frontier: Molecular Genetics

3. 3 Parents and Peers Parents and Early Experiences Peer Influence

4. 4 Cultural Influences Variations Across Cultures Variations Over Time Culture and the Self Culture and Child-Rearing Developmental Similarities Across Groups

5. 5 Evolutionary Psychology: Understanding Human Nature Natural Selection and Adaptation Evolutionary Success Helps Explain Similarities An Evolutionary Explanation of Human Sexuality

6. 6 Gender Development Gender Similarities and Differences The Nature of Gender The Nurture of Gender Reflections on Nature and Nurture

7. 7 Behavior Genetics: Predicting Individual Differences Preview Question 1: What are genes, and how do behavior geneticists explain individual differences?Preview Question 1: What are genes, and how do behavior geneticists explain individual differences?

8. 8 Genes: Our Codes for Life

9. 9 Genes: Our Codes for Life

10. 10 Genome

11. 11 Twin and Adoption Studies

12. 12 Separated Twins

13. 13 Separated Twins

14. 14 Biological Versus Adoptive Relatives

15. 15 Adoptive Studies

16. 16 Parenting

17. 17 Temperament and Heredity Preview Question 2: What is heritability, and how does it relate to individuals and groups?Preview Question 2: What is heritability, and how does it relate to individuals and groups?

18. 18 Nature and Nurture

19. 19 Gene-Environment Interaction

20. 20 Gene-Environment Interaction Preview Question 4: What is the promise of molecular genetics research?Preview Question 4: What is the promise of molecular genetics research?

21. 21 Evolutionary Psychology: Understanding Human Nature Preview Question 4: How do evolutionary psychologists use natural selection to explain behavior tendencies?Preview Question 4: How do evolutionary psychologists use natural selection to explain behavior tendencies?

22. 22 Natural Selection

23. 23 Artificial Selection

24. 24 Human Traits

25. 25 Human Sexuality Preview Question 5: How might and evolutionary psychologist explain gender differences in mating preferences?Preview Question 5: How might and evolutionary psychologist explain gender differences in mating preferences?

26. 26 Natural Selection & Mating Preferences

27. 27 Mating Preferences

28. 28 Critiquing the Evolutionary Perspective Preview Question 6: What are the key criticisms of evolutionary psychology?Preview Question 6: What are the key criticisms of evolutionary psychology?

29. 29 Evolutionary Psychologists Reply

30. 30 Nature, Nurture, and Human Diversity Parents and Peers Parents and Early Experiences Peer Influence

31. 31 Parents and Peers Preview Question 7: To what extent are our lives shaped by early stimulation, by parents, and by peers?Preview Question 7: To what extent are our lives shaped by early stimulation, by parents, and by peers?

32. 32 Experience and Brain Development

33. 33 Experience and Faculties

34. 34 Brain Development and Adulthood

35. 35 How Much Credit (or Blame) Do Parents Deserve?

36. 36 Peer Influence

37. 37 Nature, Nurture, and Human Diversity Cultural Influences Variations Across Cultures Variations Over Time Culture and the Self Culture and Child-Rearing Developmental Similarities Across Groups

38. 38 Cultural Influences Preview Question 8: How do cultural norms affect our behavior?Preview Question 8: How do cultural norms affect our behavior?

39. 39 Variation Across Culture

40. 40 Variation Over Time

41. 41 Culture and the Self Preview Question 9: How do individualist and collectivist influences affect people?Preview Question 9: How do individualist and collectivist influences affect people?

42. 42 Culture and the Self

43. 43 Culture and Child-Rearing

44. 44 Culture and Child-Rearing

45. 45 Developmental Similarities Across Groups

46. 46 Nature, Nurture, and Human Diversity Gender Development Gender Similarities and Differences The Nature of Gender The Nurture of Gender

47. 47 Gender Development Preview Question 10: What are some ways in which males and females tend to be alike and to differ?Preview Question 10: What are some ways in which males and females tend to be alike and to differ?

48. 48 Gender Differences in Aggression

49. 49 Gender and Social Power

50. 50 Gender Differences and Connectedness

51. 51 Biology of Sex

52. 52 Sexual Differentiation

53. 53 Sexual Differentiation

54. 54 Gender Roles Preview Question 11: How do nature and nurture together form our gender?Preview Question 11: How do nature and nurture together form our gender?

55. 55 Gender Roles: Theories

56. 56 Nature, Nurture, and Human Diversity Reflections on Nature and Nurture

57. 57 Reflections on Nature and Nurture