Chapter 2 Quiz

A  Create active

B  Promote Passive 

C  Promote evocative 

D  Uncouple unfavorable

A  Passive

B  Evocative 

C  Active 

D  Dynamic 

A   Evocate correlation 

B  An active correlation 

C  A passive correlation

D  Range of reaction

A  Heritability estimation

B  Canalization

C  natural selection

D  Gene-Environment correlation 

A  They will each respond differently to the same environment 

B  They will all obtain an average intelligence score 

C  They will all experience the same increase in intelligence 

D  Hermione will outperform Harry and Ron on intelligence measures

A  People respond similarity to the same qualities of the environment 

B  People have unique, genetically influenced reaction to particular experiences 

C  Heredity restricts the development of some characteristics to just one or a few outcomes

D  People with different gene- environment combination never respond similarly 

A  Heritability of personality increases over the lifespa

B  Differences in genetic makeup explain about one quarter of the variation in intelligence

C  Heritability of intelligence does not increase over the lifespan 

D  Genetic Factors are important in personality 

A  Experimental design 

B  Case study

C  Structured observation

D  Kinship study

A  Heritability estimates 

B  Niche-picking

C  Correlation coefficients 

D  epigenesist 

A  A growing number of researchers regard the question of how much heredity and environment contribute to differences among people as unanswerable 

B  Genetic markers explain nearly all of the variation in human behavior 

C  Scientists have determined that heredity plays a larger role than the environment in human development 

D  Researchers use heritability estimated to infer the role of the environment in complex human characteristics

A  Behavioral genetics

B  Environmental genetics

C  Epigenesis 

D  Child development

A  Engages in public education, legal action, drafting of legislation, congressional testimony and community organizing

B  Releases the Policy Book every two years, providing an in-depth compilation of policies for children 

C  Is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping children in poverty in non-industrialized nation 

D  Provides free legal services to low-income families of children with disabilities 

A  Cultural values of self-reliance and privacy have made government hesitant to become involved in family matters

B  The US already ranks at the top on key measures children health and well-being

C  Such government policies have failed in other western countries 

D  Social programs are rarely cost effective 

A  Czech Republic 

B  Hungary 

C  Slovakia

D  The US

A  Affordable child care is available for most families across the US 

B  Although affordable child care is in short supply, nearly all programs are high quality

C  The US has been slow to move toward national standards and funding for child care

D  The united states ranks first in the industrialized world in public funding for child care 

A  Now has a universal, publicly funded health-care system

B  Has a higher infant death rate than canada and spain 

C  Spend more public funds on education from sweden 

D  Provides national standard and funding for child care 

A  Individualistic 

B  Interdependent 

C  Collectivist 

D  Tribal

A  Think of themselves as separate entities 

B  Define themselves as part of a group 

C  Stress individuals goals over group goals

D  Are largely concerned with their own personal needs 

A  Subcultures 

B  Microsystems

C  Collectivist societies

D  Macrosystems

A  Less; have contact with their children teachers

B  More; participate in civic groups

C  Less; occupy positions of leadership

D  More; visit museums on regular basis

A  Small town

B  Mid-sized city 

C  Urban neighborhood 

D  Large urban area

A  A similar 

B  A greater

C  A lesser

D  No measurable

A  Value their children character more than their accomplishments 

B   Engage in parenting that promotes favorable development

C  Are nearly as physically and emotionally unavailable to their youngsters as parents coping with serious financial strain

D  Make fewer demands on their children than their less-well off counterparts

A  adopted children

B  Immigrant children 

C  Children from single-parent families

D  Children of poverty 

A  Reward their children for good behavior 

B  Engage in permissive child rearing

C  Ignore their child’s misbehavior 

D  Use coercive discipline 

A  Piano lessons 

B  Parental conflict

C  An inspiring teacher 

D  Harsh discipline 

A  Niche-picking

B  Coparenting 

C  Permissive parenting 

D  Induction

A  Have trouble developing feelings 

B  Fare less well than children who return to their biological mothers

C  Tend to have more learning and emotional difficulties than other children 

D  Are more like their adoptive parents than their biological parents in intelligence and personality 

A  Ultrasound

B  Maternal blood analysis 

C  amniocentesis 

D  Fetoscope

A  Usually involves the wealthy as contractors for infants and the less economically advantaged as surrogates 

B  Is the least controversial from of medically assisted conception 

C  Is illegal in most U.S. states

D  Arrangements rarely proceed smoothly 

A  about 10 percent of American babies are conceived through this technique 

B  The success rate of in-virto fertilization declines steady with age

C   It cannot be performed on women whose fallopian tubes have been damaged 

D  Doctors are required to keep records of the characteristics of sperm donors

A  Turner 

B  XYY

C  down

D  Klinefelter

A  Childhood cancer

B  PKU 

C  Hemophilia

D  Cystic fibrosis 

A  Codominance 

B  Genetic Mutations 

C  X-linked inheritance

D  Genomic imprinting 

A  Marfan syndrome

B  Sickle cell anemia 

C  Huntington disease 

D  Fragile X syndrome

A  Worldwide, approximately 106 girls are born for every 100 boys 

B  Rates of miscarriage, infant death, and childhood death are higher among males than females

C  Rates of mental retardation, learning disabilities, and behavior disorders are higher among females than males

D  The female infant is at a disadvantage compared to the male infant 

A  Curly hair

B  Facial dimples 

C  v

D  Red hair

A  A Carrier 

B  Dominant 

C  Dominant- recessive 

D  Recessive

A  The sperm fertilizes an X-bearing ovum or a Y bearing ovum 

B  The X and Y chromosomes separate into sperm cells or ovum 

C  The ovum is carrying an X Chromosome or Y chromosome 

D  An X-bearing sperm or a Y-bearing sperm fertilizes the ovum

A  An identical twin

B  Male 

C  Fraternal twin

D  Female

A  For about three decades 

B  At any age after sexual maturity 

C  For about four decades

D  For about two decades

A  Meiosis results in just one sperm cell 

B  Sperm cells do not reach maturity until adolescence 

C  About 1 to 2 million sperm are produced when meiosis is complete

D  The cells from which sperm arise are produced continuously throughout life

A  Halves the number of chromosomes normally present in the body cells

B  Results in dizygotic twins

C  Permits the chromosomes to copy themselves 

D  Doubles the number of chromosomes normally present in the body cells 

A  Autosomes 

B  Alleles 

C  Phenotypes

D  Gametes 

A  Untwist itself 

B  Divide itself in half

C  Duplicate itself 

D  Slit itself in thirds 

A  Karyotype 

B  Chromosome

C  Phenotype 

D  Genotype 

A  Phenotypes 

B  Alleles 

C  Chromosomes

D  Genotypes