Exam 6: Genetics and Personality

Which of the following statements about heritability is NOT true?

Most studies linking a specific gene to personality

Juanita is a fantastic basketball player.She has great innate ability.She is tall, agile, and has a great head for the game.Her parents take every opportunity to send her to basketball camps and clinics, and make sure she gets extra coaching.Juanita's basketball skills are due to a genotype-environment

The number of books in a child's home is an example of

Evidence for the extremely small effects of shared family environment includes the low correlations

Which of the following could potentially develop from a single fertilized egg?

Which of the following methods in NOT used with humans?

The search is for the discovery of specific genes that are responsible for personality traits is called _____ genetics.

The idea that people with "desirable" characteristics should be encouraged to have children while "less desirable" people should be discouraged from having children is called

Which of the following is an example of a shared environmental influence?

Brian always tries to decide the team's strategy.Over time, the rest of the team works to let everybody have a voice in the team strategy.This is an example of a _____ genotype-environment correlation.

Barbara is a renowned naturalist.Her parents were both park rangers and she grew up in various national parks.Barbara's predilection to become a naturalist was most likely due to a ______ genotype-environment correlation.

Which of the following attitudes has been found to be somewhat heritable?

A child shows early musical ability, which causes her parents to buy a piano for her.This scenario demonstrates the idea of genotype-environment

The gene D4DR has been associated with

Jerry is extremely extraverted and will monopolize conversations.His girlfriend, Elaine, does a good job of forcing Jerry to let other people get a few words into the conversation.Jerry's incessant talkativeness and Elaine's ability to do something about it is an example of a _____ genotype-environment correlation.

A yearly family trip to Uncle Earl and Aunt Eunice's farm would be considered part of the _____ environment.

Aunts and uncles share, on average, _____ percent of their genes with nieces and nephews.

David, an extravert, and Tom, is an introvert, are studying in a small room with the television's volume is quite loud.Based on what you know about genotype-environment interactions, what can you say about how effectively the two are studying?

The proportion of phenotypic variation in a group of individuals due to genetic variance is called