Exam 3: Exstintion: Genes,evolution,and Environment

Why do behavioral geneticists seek adopted children as subjects in studies of variability?

Darwin suggested that language develops as the brain makes probability decisions that one word is likely to follow another.

The authors note that children use words in ways that adults never would.Create your own example of the overregularization error and explain how it supports Chomsky's position.

According to Chomsky,children must apply rules of grammar in order to transform the surface structure of language into its deep structure.Create your own example to explain how two surface structures can have one deep structure.Then create another example to show how one surface structure can have an ambiguous meaning leading to two deep structures.[Be creative - don't use the examples from the textbook.]

Linkage studies look for patterns of inheritance of genetic markers in large families in which a particular condition is common.

Exposure to lead is one of the environmental factors that hinders intelligence.

In general,evolutionary psychologists study human differences and behavioral geneticists study human similarities.

Which of the following is NOT one of the important facts about heritability?

Heritability is defined as:

With regard to the interaction between genes and experience:

Those who believe that language and grammar are innate deny that nurture plays any significant role in language development.

In the year 2000,an international collaboration of researchers called the Human Genome Project and a private company,Celera Genomics,both announced that they had completed a rough draft of a map of the entire human genome.

John B.Watson would agree that:

Within every cell are rod-shared structures called _______________ that carry the genes.

According to Charles Darwin,language is an instinctive ability unique to human beings.

How might you determine whether flute-playing ability is a highly heritable trait? If you want to improve your flute playing and someone tells you that musical ability is heritable,should you stop practicing?

Which of the following is NOT true with regard to biological and genetic factors and intelligence?

This DNA is not found on genes:

Behavioral-genetic studies have shown that as adopted children grow into adulthood,the correlation between their IQ scores and those of their biologically unrelated family members diminishes to zero.

Dizygotic twins develop when a fertilized egg divides into two parts that develop into separate embryos.