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Behavior genetics
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Behavioral Genetics - the study of the relative power and the limits of genetics and our environmental behavior
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Identical Twins
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same sex only, have a lot of similarities
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Temperament
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you can take temperament of when you were 3 yrs old and predict it for the future
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Nature
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starts in the womb
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Fraternal twins
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(diff genes, not a lot of similarities) Same or opposite sex
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Probably likely to have some similarities if you talk to someone
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Critics of twin studies
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Evolutionary Psychology
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Study of Evolution of behavior and the mind
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Gene-environment interation
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neither heredity or experience acts alone
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It's adaptive
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why do infants fear strangers when they become mobile?
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Artificial selection
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any trait that is favored naturally or artificially spreads to future generations
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Culture
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the behaviors, ideas, attitudes, values, and traditions shared by people and transmitted from our generation to the next
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Norms
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Critiques of the Evolutionary Perspective
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Individualistic
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priority to ones own goals
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Collectivists
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priority to goal's of one's group
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