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Behavior Genetics |
relative influence of genes and environment on behavior |
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How do we study behavior genetics? |
Hereditary vs Environment (keeping home environment constant, varying hereditary) or (keeping hereditary constant and varying home environment) |
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What happens when twins are reared together? apart? |
together- identical are much more similar apart- still very similar, even when apart |
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What did the adoption studies show? |
people who grow up together may not resemble personality this is more similar to the genetic relatives from environment- attitude, manners, faith, etc |
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Heritability |
to what extent traits can be attributed to genes |
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Evolutionary psychology |
much more interested in similarities study of evolution of our behavior and mind NOT RANDOM!! |
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principle beliefs of natural selection |
1, offspring compete with one another to live 2. chances of reproduction enhanced/diminished by variations in biological and behavioral tendencies 3. offspring that survive are more likely to reproduce, pass along genes to future generations 4. survival of fittest results in changes in population characteristics overtime |
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what are the gender differences in sexuality? |
men are more likely to initiate sex, have more sex, gays have more sex than lesbians, casual sex, if a woman gives a warm response men are attracted and more likely to have sex them |
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what are the gender differences in views on sexuality? |
women refer to sex in more of a relationship type way, men view it more casually |
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what are the gender differences in mating preferences? |
men like women with smooth skin, youthful shapes. women like men who are dominant, mature, and can commit |
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what are gender similarities? |
genetic makeup, levels of intelligence, vocabulary, levels of happiness |
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what are gender differences? |
physical (women hit puberty before, live longer, carry more fat, shorter) psychological(women are more likely to have depression, anxiety, eating disorders) (men more likely to commit suicide, and have an alcohol problem) social (men are aggressive, socially dominant) (women are interdependent, perceive more emotions) |
