Unit 1 Intro to Psych

What are the basic hereditary units found on chromosomes?

• Genes

• Proteins

• Enzymes

• RNA

Every nongenetic influence, starting with prenatal nutrition and involving the people and areas around you

• Environment
• Genes
• Norms
• Culture

The proportion of variation in a trait due to genetic factors is called

• Heritability

• Environment

• Adaptation

• Learning

Random errors in gene replication that lead to a chance in the individual’s genetic code: the source of all genetic diversity

• Mutation
• Genes
• Norms
• Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA)

A complex molecule containing all the genetic information that makes up the chromosomes

• Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA)
• Genes
• Norms
• Culture
• Mutation

Sigmund Freud is associated with this psychological perspective

• Humanistic
• Psychodynamic
• Psychoanalysis
• Functionalism

Founder of the field of psychology as an academic subject and also known as the “father of psychology”

• B.F. Skinner
• Wilhelm Wundt
• Ivan Pavlov
• Abraham Maslow

Advocated for the rights and conditions of the mentally ill in America

• Margaret Floyd Washburn
• Wilhelm Wundt
• Ivan Pavlov
• Dorothea Dix

Threadlike structures made of DNA molecules that contain the genes. We each have 46.

• DNA
• Behavior genes
• Chromosomes
• Mutation

All of the following are ways genes could be switched off EXCEPT for which one?

• IVF (in vitro fertilization)
• famine
• environmental
• genetic mutation