1. What words describe someone who is left-brained? What words would describe someone who is right- brained?

2. Nature:  Behavior and personality comes from genetics/DNA Nurture  Behavior and personality comes from environment/surroundings

3. Behavioral Genetics:  Our behavior comes from both our environment and our genetics.  Genetics come from our genes.

4. Identical Twins Fraternal Twins  Genes are exactly the same  Two sperm; one egg  Genes are no more similar than siblings  Two sperm; two eggs

5. http://www.youtube.com/wat ch?v=qw3S35wGgT8

6.  WHAT ABOUT CHILDREN THAT ARE ADOPTED?!?  If you were adopted, would you be like your adopted family or your biological family? Why?

7. What ways are you similar to your family? What ways are you different? Is this because of genes (nature) or experience (nurture)?

8.  Who were the Jim Twins? What was their story?  In the argument of nature/nurture, what does nature mean? What does nurture mean?

9. Evolutionary Psychology  The study of the evolution of behavior and the mind, using principles of natural selection  What is ‘natural selection’?

10. Natural Selection  The principle that those traits that lead to increase production will most likely be passed on to succeeding generations

14.  NATURAL SELECTION IS HOW WE GET THE GENES WE HAVE!!!  It’s because of our genes that we think a certain way.  Natural Selection/Genes = Nature

18. Gender differences in sexuality

20. Lysol kills 99.99% of all bacteria, which means there is.01 that is not killed. Will Lysol work better on the next generation of bacteria, or worse? Why?

21. Look over your Nervous System notes (notebook pages 1-5). Identify three things that you know and three things you do not know.

22. Recap:  What is natural selection?  How does evolution still affect our thoughts today?

23.  What was hard about the quiz?  What was easy about the quiz?  What is something you wished we would have spent more time learning about?

24. State 1 way that people have had a positive impact in your life and 1 way that people have had a negative impact.

25. Recap  Our genes affect who we are/our behaviors (to an extent)  Natural Selection = Why we have some traits/behaviors today

30.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sno1TpCL j6A

31.  Think of an example of peer pressure  On a separate sheet of paper, how would you be able to test it? (Provide hypothesis, ODs, etc.)

32. What traditions does your family have? Where do those traditions come from? What other words might be associated with culture?

34.  18.5% got As  7.4% got Bs  22.2% got Cs  11.1% got Ds  40.8% failed

35.  36.7% got As  16.7% got Bs  6.7% got Cs  6.7% got Ds  33.2% failed

36.  56.2% got As  9.4% got Bs  3.1% got Cs  15.6% got Ds  15.7% failed

37. 1) A neuron's message is sent to another neuron in a process called what:  a) Action Potential  b) Synapse  c) Depolarization  d) Synthesis

38. 6) An axon sends messages ______ the cell body and a dendrite sends messages _____ the cell body.  a) away from; toward  b) away from; away from  c) toward; away from  d) toward; toward

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41. Recap:  Arguments for Nature: Genetics, Natural Selection  Arguments for Nurture: Peer Pressure, _______

42.  What is it called when your brain removes unused neurons from brain? ◦ Motto: ____ it or ____ it.  What is it called when our peers/friends influence our actions/beliefs?

43. Culture  The enduring behaviors, ideas, attitudes, values, and traditions shared by a group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next

44. Norm  An understood rule for accepted and expected behavior; prescribe ‘proper’ behavior

45.  Culturally, how would you describe yourself?  What are some of the ways that you might identify yourself?  Is it possible that at different times in your life you might identify more strongly with one aspect of your cultural identity than another? Explain.  What obstacles do you have because of your culture?

46. What behaviors/actions are normal to expect in your culture? What are expectations that everyone has without having those expectations stated?

47. Norms  An understood rule for accepted and expected behavior; prescribe ‘proper’ behavior  E.g. After a sneeze is “_____ ___”

48. Personal stories:  What similarities/differences are there?  Do they say anything about our culture?

49. Individualism and Collectivism

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56. Individualism  Giving priority to one’s own goals over group goals and defining one’s identity in terms of personal attributes rather than group identifications

58. Collectivism:  Giving priority to the goals of one’s group (often one’s extended family or work group) and defining one’s identity accordingly

61.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZzWCXg DmkY

62. How might your community look different if you lived in a collectivist culture?

63. If I were to raise a child in an Individualist culture, what would be some things I would emphasize? What about in a Collectivist culture?

64. How was your thanksgiving? Looking back, how did the men contribute to the thanksgiving dinner? How did the women contribute?

65. Recap: What is this?  Giving priority to one’s own goals over group goals and defining one’s identity in terms of personal attributes rather than group identifications

66. Recap: What is this?  Giving priority to the goals of one’s group (often one’s extended family or work group) and defining one’s identity accordingly

67. Recap: Which culture am I?  Independent self  Changes jobs/relationship often  Life task: Discover and express one’s uniqueness

68. Recap: Which culture am I?  Interdependent self  Changes jobs/relationships scarcely; has roots in tradition  Life task: Maintain connections, fit in, perform role, bring honor/tradition

69. Recap: Nature/Nurture  How do genetics/natural selection play a role in nature?  How does one’s culture play a role in nurture?

70.  A: Girl Actress  B: Former President  C: President’s daughter  D: Girl from a wealthy family

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72. MenWomen