1. 04 Nature / Nurture

2. What parts of you were you born with, and what parts were created after birth?

3. Class presentation video: Nature / Nurture What topics do you need help with?

4. What topics do you need help with?
A. The genome
B. The nature / nurture interaction
C. Gene mutations
D. Evolutionary theory of behavior
E. I understand

5. What topics do you need help with?
A. Effect of environment on synapses
B. Social norms
C. Personal space
D. Romance and individualism
E. I understand

6. What topics do you need help with?
A. Gender as related to “tend and befriend”
B. Relationship between age and empathy
C. Gender roles
D. I understand

8. Adoptive parents are least likely to influence the ________ of their adopted children.
A. personality traits
B. religious beliefs
C. political attitudes
D. moral values
Answer: A

9. Adoptive parents are least likely to influence the ________ of their adopted children.
A. personality traits
B. religious beliefs
C. political attitudes
D. moral values
Answer: A

10. Little Bethany loves new faces and stimuli, and laughs easily
Little Bethany loves new faces and stimuli, and laughs easily. People respond to her with playful smiles and tickles, which makes her giggle and ask for more. This represents ___________ between genetic predispositions and environments.
A. an interaction
B. natural selection
C. heritability
D. gender typing
Answer: A

11. Little Bethany loves new faces and stimuli, and laughs easily
Little Bethany loves new faces and stimuli, and laughs easily. People respond to her with playful smiles and tickles, which makes her giggle and ask for more. This represents ___________ between genetic predispositions and environments.
A. an interaction
B. natural selection
C. heritability
D. gender typing
Answer: A

12. Sugar and spice and everything nice, that’s what little girls are made of. . .This saying reflects perspectives about human beings. Which of the following perspectives does this saying reflect?
A. nature
B. nurture
C. both nature and nurture
D. neither nature nor nurture
Answer: A

13. Sugar and spice and everything nice, that’s what little girls are made of. . .This saying reflects perspectives about human beings. Which of the following perspectives does this saying reflect?
A. nature
B. nurture
C. both nature and nurture
D. neither nature nor nurture
Answer: A

14. You are what you eat. This saying reflects perspectives about human beings. Which of the following perspectives does this saying reflect?
A. nature
B. nurture
C. both nature and nurture
D. neither nature nor nurture
Answer: B

15. You are what you eat. This saying reflects perspectives about human beings. Which of the following perspectives does this saying reflect?
A. nature
B. nurture
C. both nature and nurture
D. neither nature nor nurture
Answer: B

16. If weight were 50 percent heritable, it would be most accurate to say that:
A. your weight is equally influenced by nature and by nurture.
B. your mother’s genes are responsible for half of your weight, and your father’s genes explain the other half.
C. nature explains about half of the differences we observe among people.
D. there is very little you can do to override the power of your genes in influencing your weight.
Answer: C

17. If weight were 50 percent heritable, it would be most accurate to say that:
A. your weight is equally influenced by nature and by nurture.
B. your mother’s genes are responsible for half of your weight, and your father’s genes explain the other half.
C. nature explains about half of the differences we observe among people.
D. there is very little you can do to override the power of your genes in influencing your weight.
Answer: C

18. Discussion group

19. 1. What parts of your personality do you feel are the result of nature, nurture, or a combination of the two?
2. When growing up, what effect did your peers have on you?
3. How did your culture influence you (whether you were born in America, or grew up in another culture)?
4. How do you feel your gender influenced your personality?
5. How would your gender roles been different had you been born in another culture?
6. Do you see any examples of the evolutionary explanation of human sexuality?