Chapter 2 Quiz

A  Create active

B  Uncouple unfavorable

C  Promote Passive 

D  Promote evocative 

A  Dynamic 

B  Passive

C  Active 

D  Evocative 

A  A passive correlation

B  An active correlation 

C  Range of reaction

D   Evocate correlation 

A  Heritability estimation

B  natural selection

C  Canalization

D  Gene-Environment correlation 

A  They will all obtain an average intelligence score 

B  They will all experience the same increase in intelligence 

C  Hermione will outperform Harry and Ron on intelligence measures

D  They will each respond differently to the same environment 

A  People have unique, genetically influenced reaction to particular experiences 

B  People with different gene- environment combination never respond similarly 

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

D  People respond similarity to the same qualities of the environment 

A  Genetic Factors are important in personality 

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  Heritability of personality increases over the lifespa

A  Experimental design 

B  Structured observation

C  Kinship study

D  Case study

A  Niche-picking

B  epigenesist 

C  Correlation coefficients 

D  Heritability estimates 

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

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

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

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

A  Epigenesis 

B  Child development

C  Behavioral genetics

D  Environmental genetics

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  Social programs are rarely cost effective 

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

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

D  Such government policies have failed in other western countries 

A  Slovakia

B  Czech Republic 

C  Hungary 

D  The US

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

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

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

D  The US has been slow to move toward national standards and 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  Provides national standard and funding for child care 

D  Spend more public funds on education from sweden 

A  Interdependent 

B  Individualistic 

C  Collectivist 

D  Tribal

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 

A  Collectivist societies

B  Macrosystems

C  Microsystems

D  Subcultures 

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  Large urban area

C  Urban neighborhood 

D  Mid-sized city 

A  A greater

B  A lesser

C  No measurable

D  A similar 

A   Engage in parenting that promotes favorable development

B  Value their children character more than their accomplishments 

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

A  Children from single-parent families

B  Immigrant children 

C  Children of poverty 

D  adopted children

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  Harsh discipline 

C  Parental conflict

D  An inspiring teacher 

A  Niche-picking

B  Permissive parenting 

C  Coparenting 

D  Induction

A  Have trouble developing feelings 

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

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

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

A  Ultrasound

B  amniocentesis 

C  Maternal blood analysis 

D  Fetoscope

A  Is the least controversial from of medically assisted conception 

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

C  Is illegal in most U.S. states

D  Arrangements rarely proceed smoothly 

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

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  about 10 percent of American babies are conceived through this technique 

A  XYY

B  down

C  Turner 

D  Klinefelter

A  Cystic fibrosis 

B  PKU 

C  Childhood cancer

D  Hemophilia

A  Genomic imprinting 

B  X-linked inheritance

C  Genetic Mutations 

D  Codominance 

A  Marfan syndrome

B  Sickle cell anemia 

C  Huntington disease 

D  Fragile X syndrome

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

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

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

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

A  Curly hair

B  v

C  Red hair

D  Facial dimples 

A  A Carrier 

B  Dominant- recessive 

C  Recessive

D  Dominant 

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

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

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

D  The ovum is carrying an X Chromosome or Y chromosome 

A  An identical twin

B  Male 

C  Female

D  Fraternal twin

A  For about four decades

B  For about three decades 

C  At any age after sexual maturity 

D  For about two decades

A  Sperm cells do not reach maturity until adolescence 

B  Meiosis results in just one sperm cell 

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

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

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

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

C  Permits the chromosomes to copy themselves 

D  Results in dizygotic twins

A  Alleles 

B  Gametes 

C  Phenotypes

D  Autosomes 

A  Duplicate itself 

B  Untwist itself 

C  Slit itself in thirds 

D  Divide itself in half

A  Karyotype 

B  Chromosome

C  Genotype 

D  Phenotype 

A  Chromosomes

B  Alleles 

C  Genotypes

D  Phenotypes