Matching Quiz

Match each person's name with the event or concept with which he or she is associated.


1				Sandra Scarr


2				Mary Carskadon


3				Robert Plomin


4				David Moore


5				Albert Bandura


6				David Buss


7				Stephen Jay Gould


8				Roberta Simmons and Dale Blyth


9				Laurence Steinberg


10				Judith Blakemore

Answer choices for questions 1 through 10

A)	found that early maturing girls have more problems in school than late maturing girls
B)	described three ways that heredity and environment are correlated: passive, evocative, and active
C)	found that common rearing, or shared environment, accounts for little of the variation in adolescents' personalities or interests
D)	described precocious puberty as the very early onset and rapid progression of puberty
E)	wrote the book The Dependent Gene and said that individual segments of DNA do not act independently
F)	studied adolescent sleep patterns; suggested that early school starting times may result in lack of attention and poor performance on tests
G)	rejected "one-sided evolutionism" in which social behavior is seen as the product of evolved biology
H)	believes that evolution shapes our physical features, decision making, aggressive behaviors, fears, and mating behaviors
I)	argues that adolescents' opportunities for immature judgment that may lead to harmful consequences should be limited
J)	concluded that in most domains, human biology allows a broad range of cultural possibilities

Determinants of puberty: match each concept with its function.


11				Body system that plays a significant role in puberty; involves the interaction of the hypothalamus, the pituitary gland, and the gonads


12				Phase of puberty that involves the maturation of primary and secondary sexual characteristics


13				a period of rapid physical maturation involving hormonal and bodily changes that take place primarily in early adolescence


14				Main class of male sex hormones


15				First menstrual period


16				Phase of puberty that involves hormonal changes in the adrenal glands


17				First sperm ejaculation


18				Powerful chemical substances secreted by the endocrine glands and carried throughout the body by the bloodstream


19				Endocrine gland that controls growth and regulates other glands


20				Brain structure that monitors eating, drinking, and sex


21				Main class of female sex hormones

Answer choices for questions 11 through 21

Evolution, heredity, and environment: match each concept with its description.


22				Emphasizes the importance of adaptation, reproduction, and “survival of the fittest” in explaining behavior


23				Modification of behavior that promotes an organism's survival in the natural habitat


24				Double-helix shaped, complex molecules that contain genetic information


25				Evolutionary process that favors those individuals of a species who are best adapted to survive and reproduce


26				The way a person's genetic heritage is observed in physical characteristics, such as height, weight, intelligence, and personality


27				Threadlike structures that DNA


28				Field that seeks to discover the influence of heredity and environment on individual differences in human traits and development


29				Emphasizes that development is the result of an ongoing, bidirectional interchange between heredity and the environment


30				A person’s genetic heritage


31				Factors such as parents' personalities and a family's socioeconomic status

Answer choices for questions 22 through 31

A)	adaptive behavior
B)	natural selection
C)	chromosomes
D)	behavior genetics
E)	genotype
F)	shared environmental experiences
G)	DNA
H)	phenotype
I)	evolutionary psychology
J)	epigenetic view