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WorksheetsAP PSYCH: Heritability
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
Why is it incorrect to say that 50 percent heritability of intelligence means that the cause of your intelligence is 50 percent genetic and 50 percent environmental?
because heritability increases as environments change
because genes are the basis for our behavior, environment has no impact
because nurture controls intelligence levels, not nature
because heritability accounts for variations among people, not in specific individuals
Studies of identical twins who had been reared apart most clearly highlight the importance of ________ in personality development.
mutation
genetic predispositions
natural selection
home environments
Damage to the left cerebral hemisphere is most likely to reduce people's ability to
speak fluently
copy drawings
recognize faces
recognize songs
A condition resulting from surgery that isolates the brain's two hemispheres by cutting the fibers (mainly those of the corpus callosum) connecting them.
hemispherectomy
lobotomy
lesion
split brain
A condition in which a person can respond to a visual stimulus without consciously experiencing it.
serial processing
blindsight
parallel processing
artificial intelligence
The principle that information is often simultaneously processed on separate conscious & unconscious tracks.
serial processing
blindsight
dual processing
subliminal processing
Processing many aspects of a problem simultaneously; generally used to process well-learned information or to solve easy problems.
serial processing
dual processing
parallel processing
sequential processing
The genetic transfer of characteristics from parents to offspring.
behavior genetics
environment
heredity
Twins that develop from a single fertilized egg that splits in two, creating two genetically identical organisms.
identical (monozygotic) twin
fraternal (dizygotic) twin
Twins that develop from separate fertilized eggs. They are genetically no closer than ordinary brothers & sisters, but they share a prenatal environment.
Identical (monozygotic) twins
Fraternal (dizygotic) twins
The interplay that occurs when the effect of one factor (such as environment) depends on another factor (such as heredity).
interaction
molecular genetics
molecular behavior genetics
epigenetics
"above" or "in addition to" genetics; the study of environmental influences of gene expression that occur without a DNA change.
interaction
molecular genetics
molecular behavior genetics
epigenetics
