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| the tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one would have foreseen it. |
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| threadlike structures made of DNA molecules that contain the genes |
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| a complex molecule containing genetic info that makes up the chromosomes. |
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| the biochemical units of heredity that make up the chromosomes; a segment of DNA capable of synthesizing a protein. |
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| the complete instructions for making an organisms consisting of all the genetic material in its chromosomes. The human genome has three billion weakly bonded pairs of nucleotides organized as coiled chains of DNA |
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| the principle that among the range of inherited trait variations, those contribution to reproduction and survival will most likely be passed on to succeeding generations |
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| random errors in gene replication that lead to a change in the sequence of nucleotides; the source of all genetic diversity |
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| the study of the evolution of behavior and the mind, using principles of natural selection. natural selection is presumed to have favored genes that predisposed behavior tendencies and information processing systems that solved adaptive problems faced by our ancestors thus contributing to the survival and spread of their genes. |
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| the characteristics whether biologically or socially influenced by which people define male and female. |
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| the study of the relative power and limits of genetic and environmental influences on behavior |
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| every nongenetic influence from prenatal nutrition to the people and things around us. |
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| twins who develop from a single fertilized egg that splits in two creating two genetically identical organisms. |
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| wins who develop from separate eggs. they are genetically no closer than brothers and sisters, but that share a fetal environment. |
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| a person's characteristics emotional reactivity and intensity. |
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| the effect of one factor depends on another factor |
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| the subfield of biology that studies the molecular structure and function of genes |
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| the enduring behaviors, ideas, attitudes, and traditions shared by a large group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next |
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| an understood rule for accepted and expected behavior. norms prescribe prper behavior |
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| the bugger zone we like to maintain around our bodies. |
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| self replicating ideas fashions, and innovations passed from person to person |
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| the sex chromosome found in both men and women females have two X chromosomes ; males have one. An X chromosome form each parents produces a female. |
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| the sex chromosome found only in males. when paired with an X sex chromosome from the mother it produces a male child |
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| the most important of the male sex hormones. both males and females have it but the additional testosterone in males stimulate the growth of the male sex organs in the fetus and the development of the male sex characteristics during puberty. |
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| a set of expectations (norms) about a social position, defining how those in the position ought to behave |
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| a set of expected behaviors for males and for females. |
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| ones sense of being male of female |
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| the acquisition of a traditional masculine of feminine role |
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| the theory that we learn social behavior by observing and imitating and by being regarded or punished |
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| the theory that children learn form their cultures a concept of what it means to be male and female and that they adjust their behavior accordingly |
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| a branch of psychology that studies physical cognitive, and social change throughout the life span |
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| the fertilized egg; it enters a two week period of rapid cell division and develops into an embryo |
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| the developing human organism from about two weeks after fertilization through the second month. |
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| the developing human organism from nine weeks after conception to birth. |
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| agents such as chemicals and viruses that can reach the embryo or fetus during prenatal development and cause harm. |
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| physical and cognitive abnormalities in children caused by a pregnant womans heavy drinking in sever cases symptoms include noticeable facial misporportions |
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| a babies tendency when touched on the cheek to open the mouth and search for the nipple |
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| biological growth processed that enable orderly changes in behavior relatively uninfluenced by experience |
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| a concept or frameowrk that organized and interprets information |
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| interpreting ones new experience in therms of ones existing schemas |
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| adapting one;s current understandings to incorporate new information |
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