PSYC 2130 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Behavioural Genetics, Twin Study, Heritability

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2130
• Professor: Krista Phillips

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Chapter 9: the inheritance of personality: behavioral genetics and evolutionary. The field of study that attempts to explain how individual differences in behavior (i. e. , personality traits) are shared by biological relatives is called ________. a. evolutionary biology c. heritability science b. behavioral genetics d. behavioral darwinism. Behavioral genetics, like trait psychology, focuses on aspects of personality that. ________, whereas evolutionary psychology more typically focuses on aspects of personality that. ________. a. all humans share; differ from one individual to another b. vary among groups of individuals; vary among individuals c. differ from one individual to another; all humans share d. are species-specific; are individual-specific. The notion that humans could be improved through selective breeding is called________. a. eugenics c. behavioral darwinism b. cloning d. heritability. Monozygotic (mz) twins share ________ percent of the genes that vary across individuals, and dizygotic (dz) twins share, on average, ________ percent of the genes that vary across individuals. a.