Exam 3: Evolutionary and Genetic Foundations of Psychology

What do 'high heritability' and 'low heritability' mean in an evolutionary context?

Which are the two main approaches to study heritability?

Eusocial breeding systems are an example of:

What are the two main thinking approaches to study human behaviour within an evolutionary perspective?

In the experiment by Bateson and Matheson (2007) on negative cognitive bias in animals, what predicted the likelihood of opening grey lids in starlings?

Evolutionary psychology is tightly linked to:

__________ studies suggest that some traits, such as personality or cognitive functioning, are heritable. However, we need __________ studies to understand which alleles of specific genes affect these traits.

As a typical girl, Cristina has:

Which of the following can be considered a social factor affecting the heritability of intelligence?

Which are the four chemical bases of DNA?

What principle of human evolution best explains why tall people probably have tall parents?

__________ represent the functional pieces of genetic material.

Starlings kept in __________ cages were more likely to see grey lids as more similar to black and not turn them.

Chimpanzees are more closely related to humans than to gorillas.

What is the main function of the MC1R gene?

We receive two copies of most genes, one from our mother and the other from our father.

A type of heterozygous red tomato (Rr) is crossed with a homozygous green tomato (rr). What is the probability of one of their offspring being green?

There are physical, developmental and ecological constraints on adaptation.

What does r represent in the Hamilton's rule?

Learning from the behaviour of others is known as __________.