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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A Uncouple unfavorable
B Promote Passive
C Create active
D Promote evocative
Question #2
A Dynamic
B Active
C Evocative
D Passive
Question #3
A Evocate correlation
B A passive correlation
C An active correlation
D Range of reaction
Question #4
A Gene-Environment correlation
B Canalization
C Heritability estimation
D natural selection
Question #5
A They will all obtain an average intelligence score
B They will each respond differently to the same environment
C They will all experience the same increase in intelligence
D Hermione will outperform Harry and Ron on intelligence measures
Question #6
A People with different gene- environment combination never respond similarly
B Heredity restricts the development of some characteristics to just one or a few outcomes
C People have unique, genetically influenced reaction to particular experiences
D People respond similarity to the same qualities of the environment
Question #7
A Heritability of personality increases over the lifespa
B Heritability of intelligence does not increase over the lifespan
C Differences in genetic makeup explain about one quarter of the variation in intelligence
D Genetic Factors are important in personality
Question #8
A Kinship study
B Structured observation
C Case study
D Experimental design
Question #9
A Heritability estimates
B Niche-picking
C Correlation coefficients
D epigenesist
Question #10
A Researchers use heritability estimated to infer the role of the environment in complex human characteristics
B Scientists have determined that heredity plays a larger role than the environment in human development
C A growing number of researchers regard the question of how much heredity and environment contribute to differences among people as unanswerable
D Genetic markers explain nearly all of the variation in human behavior
Question #11
A Environmental genetics
B Epigenesis
C Behavioral genetics
D Child development
Question #12
A Engages in public education, legal action, drafting of legislation, congressional testimony and community organizing
B Provides free legal services to low-income families of children with disabilities
C Is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping children in poverty in non-industrialized nation
D Releases the Policy Book every two years, providing an in-depth compilation of policies for children
Question #13
A The US already ranks at the top on key measures children health and well-being
B Cultural values of self-reliance and privacy have made government hesitant to become involved in family matters
C Social programs are rarely cost effective
D Such government policies have failed in other western countries
Question #14
A Hungary
B Slovakia
C The US
D Czech Republic
Question #15
A Affordable child care is available for most families across the US
B The US has been slow to move toward national standards and funding for child care
C Although affordable child care is in short supply, nearly all programs are high quality
D The united states ranks first in the industrialized world in public funding for child care
Question #16
A Has a higher infant death rate than canada and spain
B Provides national standard and funding for child care
C Spend more public funds on education from sweden
D Now has a universal, publicly funded health-care system
Question #17
A Tribal
B Collectivist
C Individualistic
D Interdependent
Question #18
A Define themselves as part of a group
B Stress individuals goals over group goals
C Think of themselves as separate entities
D Are largely concerned with their own personal needs
Question #19
A Subcultures
B Microsystems
C Macrosystems
D Collectivist societies
Question #20
A More; visit museums on regular basis
B Less; occupy positions of leadership
C Less; have contact with their children teachers
D More; participate in civic groups
Question #21
A Mid-sized city
B Small town
C Large urban area
D Urban neighborhood
Question #22
A No measurable
B A similar
C A greater
D A lesser
Question #23
A Value their children character more than their accomplishments
B Engage in parenting that promotes favorable development
C Make fewer demands on their children than their less-well off counterparts
D Are nearly as physically and emotionally unavailable to their youngsters as parents coping with serious financial strain
Question #24
A Children of poverty
B Immigrant children
C Children from single-parent families
D adopted children
Question #25
A Ignore their child’s misbehavior
B Use coercive discipline
C Reward their children for good behavior
D Engage in permissive child rearing
Question #26
A An inspiring teacher
B Harsh discipline
C Parental conflict
D Piano lessons
Question #27
A Coparenting
B Induction
C Permissive parenting
D Niche-picking
Question #28
A Have trouble developing feelings
B Fare less well than children who return to their biological mothers
C Are more like their adoptive parents than their biological parents in intelligence and personality
D Tend to have more learning and emotional difficulties than other children
Question #29
A Maternal blood analysis
B Ultrasound
C amniocentesis
D Fetoscope
Question #30
A Arrangements rarely proceed smoothly
B Usually involves the wealthy as contractors for infants and the less economically advantaged as surrogates
C Is the least controversial from of medically assisted conception
D Is illegal in most U.S. states
Question #31
A about 10 percent of American babies are conceived through this technique
B Doctors are required to keep records of the characteristics of sperm donors
C The success rate of in-virto fertilization declines steady with age
D It cannot be performed on women whose fallopian tubes have been damaged
Question #32
A Klinefelter
B Turner
C XYY
D down
Question #33
A Cystic fibrosis
B Hemophilia
C Childhood cancer
D PKU
Question #34
A Codominance
B X-linked inheritance
C Genetic Mutations
D Genomic imprinting
Question #35
A Marfan syndrome
B Fragile X syndrome
C Huntington disease
D Sickle cell anemia
Question #36
A Rates of mental retardation, learning disabilities, and behavior disorders are higher among females than males
B The female infant is at a disadvantage compared to the male infant
C Worldwide, approximately 106 girls are born for every 100 boys
D Rates of miscarriage, infant death, and childhood death are higher among males than females
Question #37
A Facial dimples
B Red hair
C Curly hair
D v
Question #38
A A Carrier
B Dominant
C Recessive
D Dominant- recessive
Question #39
A The sperm fertilizes an X-bearing ovum or a Y bearing ovum
B An X-bearing sperm or a Y-bearing sperm fertilizes the ovum
C The ovum is carrying an X Chromosome or Y chromosome
D The X and Y chromosomes separate into sperm cells or ovum
Question #40
A Female
B An identical twin
C Male
D Fraternal twin
Question #41
A For about three decades
B For about two decades
C At any age after sexual maturity
D For about four decades
Question #42
A About 1 to 2 million sperm are produced when meiosis is complete
B Meiosis results in just one sperm cell
C Sperm cells do not reach maturity until adolescence
D The cells from which sperm arise are produced continuously throughout life
Question #43
A Results in dizygotic twins
B Doubles the number of chromosomes normally present in the body cells
C Halves the number of chromosomes normally present in the body cells
D Permits the chromosomes to copy themselves
Question #44
A Alleles
B Gametes
C Autosomes
D Phenotypes
Question #45
A Untwist itself
B Slit itself in thirds
C Duplicate itself
D Divide itself in half
Question #46
A Genotype
B Chromosome
C Phenotype
D Karyotype
Question #47
A Phenotypes
B Chromosomes
C Alleles
D Genotypes