Key People Quiz

Match the statement to the relevant name.


1				Evolution pervasively influences our fears, how aggressive we are, and how we make decisions


2				Minnesota Study of Twins Reared Apart


3				Natural selection; survival of the fittest


4				Rejects the notion of social behaviour as the product of evolved biology


5				The human species has been selected for learnability and plasticity


6				What parents do does not make a difference in children's behaviour


7				Children reared in the same environment often have different personalities


8				Intelligence is primarily inherited


9				High-quality early educational daycare can raise intelligence


10				The human race is not a local population, nor are the racial subgroups well defined


11				The benefits of evolutionary selection decrease following the decline in reproductive capacity


12				Intelligence scores between races can be accounted for by environmental differences, not genetic qualities


13				In most domains of human functioning, biology allows a broad range of cultural possibilities


14				Examined the brain and found more variation within each "racial" grouping than between them


15				Genetic differences exist between racial groups for the heritable nature of such factors as intelligence


16				Each individual has a range of potential but won't exceed that range


17				Found that women with phenylketonuria (PKU) must maintain their dietary restrictions during pregnancy in order to prevent mental retardation in their offspring


18				Suggested that the position of the adopted person in our society is a socially constructed one

Answer choices for questions 1 through 18