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- What was the most interesting group studied in the Minnesota project?
- Differentiate between genotype and phenotype. How do genes regulate biological structures and functions?
- Describe dominant, recessive, and polygenic influences on phenotype.
- Describe techniques used to modify genes for research and therapeutic purposes.
- Describe three research approaches used to estimate genetic and environmental determinants of behavior.
- Define heritability. How is heritability of a trait estimated?
- Contrast the behavioristic and ethological assumptions regarding the development of behavior.
- Discuss the relation of evolution and culture to species and personal adaptations. What are the basic adaptations that organisms must learn?
- How large a factor is heritability in individual differences in intelligence?
- Describe shared and unshared environmental influences on intelligence. How is this affected by social class?
- Describe the heritability of personality and the role of shared and unshared environmental influences on personality differences.
- Describe reaxtion range and its hypothesized effects on the genetic expression of intelligence.
- Describe the ways that genotype can affect environmental influences on behavior.
- Define evolution and explain how genetic variation and natural selection produce adaptations.
- How does brain evolution illustrate the natural selection of biological mechanisms?
- How have evolutionary principles been used to account for diverse cultures?
- Do genetically based diseases provide an argument against natural selection?
- Describe examples of human behavior that suggest innate evolved mechanisms. Differentiate between remote and proximate causal factors.
- Contrast sexual strategies and social structure explanations for mate preferences, citing results from cross–cultural research.
- How does evolutionary theory account for the universal nature of the Big Five personality traits and of variation on each of them?
- Describe some of the fallacies that can arise from misinterpreting evolutionary theory.
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