1. True or False People everywhere return favors.
The DNA in chimpanzees is 99.4 % the same as that in humans.
Even complex human traits are determined by a single gene
Fraternal twins are genetically no more similar than ordinary brothers and sisters.
Adoptee’s traits such as extroversion and agreeableness bear more similarities to their adoptive parents than to their biological parents
Child neglect and abuse and even parental divorce are rare in adoptive homes.
Eating disorders are primarily a contemporary Western cultural phenomenon.
If after a worldwide catastrophe only Icelanders or Kenyans survived, the human species would suffer a huge reduction in its genetic diversity
Men judge women as more attractive if they have a youthful appearance, and women prefer men who are mature, dominant, and affluent.
A culture with gender equality is a culture with larger gender differences in mate preferences

2. Unit 3C: Biological Bases of Behavior: Genetics, Evolutionary Psychology, and Behavior

3. Unit Overview Behavior Genetics: Predicting Individual Differences
Evolutionary Psychology:
Understanding Human Nature
Reflections on Nature and Nurture

4. Behavior Genetics: Predicting Individual Differences

5. Introduction
LO #1
behavior genetics
heredity vs. the environment

6. Chromosomes
23 from egg and 23 from sperm combine at conception into how many pairs?

7. Genes: Our Codes for Life
chromosome
DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid)
genes
active (expressed) vs. inactive
genome

8. Video: Ethics in Human Research: Violating One’s Privacy Vol
Video: Ethics in Human Research: Violating One’s Privacy Vol. 1, DVD1 (An Introduction to Psychological Science) Clip #3, 7:00

9. Twin and Adoption Studies Identical vs. Fraternal Twins
identical twins (mono-zygotic)
fraternal twins (di-zygotic)

10. Twin and Adoption Studies Identical vs. Fraternal Twins
mono-zygotic

11. Twin and Adoption Studies Identical vs. Fraternal Twins
mono-zygotic

12. Twin and Adoption Studies Identical vs. Fraternal Twins
mono-zygotic

13. Twin and Adoption Studies Identical vs. Fraternal Twins
mono-zygotic

14. Twin and Adoption Studies Identical vs. Fraternal Twins
mono-zygotic
di-zygotic

15. Twin and Adoption Studies Identical vs. Fraternal Twins
mono-zygotic
di-zygotic

16. Identical vs. Fraternal: You make the call!

19. Twin and Adoption Studies Separated Twins, p. 97
U of MN studies on identical twins separated at birth (Jim and his brother Jim)
anecdotal evidence (coincidental similarities)
“virtual twins” (same-age biologically unrelated siblings)

20. Twin and Adoption Studies Biological vs. Adoptive Relatives*
genetic relatives, p. 99 (biological parents and siblings)
environmental relatives (adoptive parents and siblings)
*Are adoptees more like biological parents (who contributed their genes) or adoptive parents (who contribute a home environment)?

21. Exercise: Striking Similarities, p. 5
Striking similarities have sometimes been found between twins who are reunited after years of separation.
Genetics or Chance?
Pair off.
Distribute handout Handout 3C-2.
In less than five minutes, discover how many similarities you and partner can discover (don’t worry about differences).

22. Video: Nature vs. Nurture: Growing Up Apart DVD 1 “Nature and Nurture” #9, p. 20

23. Heritability
LO #2
heritability
“difference among individuals”

24. Heritability Group Differences
Heritable differences between individuals does NOT imply heritable group differences, p. 100

25. Heritability Nature and Nurture, p. 101
influence of adaptation (calloused feet)
nature and nurture work together (chameleon)
genes are self-regulating (genes react)

26. Gene-Environment Interaction
genes and experience interact (pretty baby vs. ugly baby)
evocative interactions
Examples:
Calm teacher gets angry with disruptive student.
Parents discipline siblings differently.

27. The New Frontier: Molecular Genetics
LO #3
molecular genetics
molecular behavior genetics goal:
to find genes that influence normal human traits
to explore mechanisms that control gene expression
genetics and diseases (to isolate genes that cause disorders)

28. Evolutionary Psychology: Understanding Human Nature

29. Natural Selection and Adaptation
LO #4
evolutionary psychology
natural selection
mutation
adaptation
fitness

30. Evolutionary Success Helps Explain Similarities
Behaviors that contribute to survival are found throughout cultures

31. Evolutionary Success Helps Explain Similarities Outdated Tendencies
Genetic traits which helped our ancestors survive may harm us today p. 105

32. “the Second Darwinian Revolution”
Evolutionary Success Helps Explain Similarities Evolutionary Psychology Today
“the Second Darwinian Revolution”

33. studies suggesting men have a stronger tendency towards sex
An Evolutionary Explanation of Human Sexuality Gender Differences in Sexuality
LO #5
studies suggesting men have a stronger tendency towards sex
(study of adolescent
males)

34. Differing preferences in partners
An Evolutionary Explanation of Human Sexuality Natural Selection and Mating Preferences
Differing preferences in partners
male preferences
female preferences
(read p. 106)

35. Video: Evolutionary Psychology and Sex Differences Vol
Video: Evolutionary Psychology and Sex Differences Vol. 2, DVD (The Developing Person, Clip 112, 4:10 min.)

36. Critiquing the Evolutionary Perspective
LO #6
Backward theorizing, p. 107
Impact of social influence
determinism
moral responsibility
rationalizing

37. September 2, 2008
Dear Mr. Welch, I’m at UW Milwaukee and am taking a Psych 101 class. I was reading through the homework and came across this explanation of behavior according to evolutionary psychology:
Theorists claim that we have the ability to lie because our ancestors who could lie had an advantage: they could trick their naive companions into giving up resources. These more devious ancestors had more children who survived than did their non-lying contemporaries, and their lying children had more children, and so on until the ability to lie was inborn in all members of our species.
Just thought you might like to laugh at this attempt to explain sin.
Enjoy!
God bless,
Megen Bejvan

38. Three Current “Life” Issues
Abortion
Cloning
Euthanasia

39. When cloning goes bad pics

40. “So, when’s the test gonna be?”

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48. Behavior genetics
= the study of the relative power and limits of genetic and environmental influences on behavior.

49. Environment
= every non-genetic influence, from prenatal nutrition to the people and things around us.

50. Chromosomes
= threadlike structures made of DNA molecules that contain the genes.

51. DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid)
= a complex molecule containing the genetic information that makes up the chromosomes.

52. Genes
= the biochemical units of heredity that make up the chromosomes; segments of DNA capable of synthesizing a protein.

53. Genome
= the complete instructions for making an organism, consisting of all the genetic material in that organism’s chromosomes.

54. Identical Twins
= twins who develop from a single fertilized egg that splits in two, creating two genetically-identical organisms.

55. Fraternal Twins
= twins who develop from separate fertilized eggs. They are genetically no closer than brothers and sisters, but they share a fetal environment.

56. Heritability
= the proportion of variation among individuals that we can attribute to genes. The heritability of a trait may vary, depending on the range of populations and environments studied.

57. Interaction
= the interplay that occurs when the effect of one factor (such as environment) depends on another factor (such as heredity).

58. Molecular Genetics
= the subfield of biology that studies the molecular structure and function of genes.

59. Evolutionary Psychology
= the study of the evolution of behavior and the mind,using principles of natural selection.

60. Natural Selection
= the principle that, among the range of inherited trait variations, those that lead to increased reproduction and survival will most likely be passed on to succeeding generations.

61. Mutation
= the random error in gene replication that leads to a change.