Chapter 2 Quiz

A  Promote Passive 

B  Promote evocative 

C  Create active

D  Uncouple unfavorable

A  Evocative 

B  Active 

C  Dynamic 

D  Passive

A  Range of reaction

B   Evocate correlation 

C  An active correlation 

D  A passive correlation

A  Gene-Environment correlation 

B  Canalization

C  Heritability estimation

D  natural selection

A  Hermione will outperform Harry and Ron on intelligence measures

B  They will all obtain an average intelligence score 

C  They will each respond differently to the same environment 

D  They will all experience the same increase in intelligence 

A  People have unique, genetically influenced reaction to particular experiences 

B  People respond similarity to the same qualities of the environment 

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

B  Heritability of intelligence does not increase over the lifespan 

C  Genetic Factors are important in personality 

D  Heritability of personality increases over the lifespa

A  Experimental design 

B  Kinship study

C  Structured observation

D  Case study

A  Heritability estimates 

B  epigenesist 

C  Niche-picking

D  Correlation coefficients 

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

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

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

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

A  Child development

B  Behavioral genetics

C  Environmental genetics

D  Epigenesis 

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

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

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

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

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

B  Such government policies have failed in other western countries 

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

D  Social programs are rarely cost effective 

A  Slovakia

B  Hungary 

C  Czech Republic 

D  The US

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

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

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

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  Provides national standard and funding for child care 

D  Spend more public funds on education from sweden 

A  Individualistic 

B  Collectivist 

C  Tribal

D  Interdependent 

A  Define themselves as part of a group 

B  Are largely concerned with their own personal needs 

C  Think of themselves as separate entities 

D  Stress individuals goals over group goals

A  Collectivist societies

B  Microsystems

C  Macrosystems

D  Subcultures 

A  Less; have contact with their children teachers

B  Less; occupy positions of leadership

C  More; participate in civic groups

D  More; visit museums on regular basis

A  Mid-sized city 

B  Urban neighborhood 

C  Large urban area

D  Small town

A  A greater

B  No measurable

C  A similar 

D  A lesser

A  Value their children character more than their accomplishments 

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

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

D   Engage in parenting that promotes favorable development

A  adopted children

B  Children from single-parent families

C  Children of poverty 

D  Immigrant children 

A  Engage in permissive child rearing

B  Use coercive discipline 

C  Reward their children for good behavior 

D  Ignore their child’s misbehavior 

A  Harsh discipline 

B  Piano lessons 

C  An inspiring teacher 

D  Parental conflict

A  Induction

B  Coparenting 

C  Niche-picking

D  Permissive parenting 

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

B  Have trouble developing feelings 

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  amniocentesis 

B  Fetoscope

C  Maternal blood analysis 

D  Ultrasound

A  Arrangements rarely proceed smoothly 

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  Is the least controversial from of medically assisted conception 

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

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

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  XYY

B  Turner 

C  down

D  Klinefelter

A  Hemophilia

B  PKU 

C  Cystic fibrosis 

D  Childhood cancer

A  X-linked inheritance

B  Genetic Mutations 

C  Genomic imprinting 

D  Codominance 

A  Huntington disease 

B  Sickle cell anemia 

C  Marfan syndrome

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  Red hair

B  v

C  Facial dimples 

D  Curly hair

A  Dominant- recessive 

B  A Carrier 

C  Dominant 

D  Recessive

A  The ovum is carrying an X Chromosome or Y chromosome 

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

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

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 two decades

B  At any age after sexual maturity 

C  For about three decades 

D  For about four decades

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

B  Sperm cells do not reach maturity until adolescence 

C  Meiosis results in just one sperm cell 

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

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

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

C  Results in dizygotic twins

D  Permits the chromosomes to copy themselves 

A  Autosomes 

B  Alleles 

C  Gametes 

D  Phenotypes

A  Untwist itself 

B  Slit itself in thirds 

C  Divide itself in half

D  Duplicate itself 

A  Karyotype 

B  Genotype 

C  Phenotype 

D  Chromosome

A  Chromosomes

B  Genotypes

C  Alleles 

D  Phenotypes