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Title: The fact that a child's parents provide both her genetic inheritance and her living environment is ...
Post by: dfysb54w on Mar 17, 2018
The fact that a child's parents provide both her genetic inheritance and her living environment is an example of a(n)
 
  A) active gene-environment correlation.
  B) passive gene-environment correlation.
  C) evocative gene-environment correlation.
  D) recessive gene-environment correlation.

Question 2

The concept of a reaction range applies
 
  A) to many different traits, such as intellect, height, and coordination.
  B) only to physical traits, such as height.
  C) only to intelligence and psychological traits.
  D) only to physical coordination and other physical traits.

Question 3

According to the idea of __________, people's tallest and shortest possible heights are determined by their genotypes, but their actual phenotypes are also dependent on environmental factors, such as nutrition.
 
  A) heritability
  B) the microsystem
  C) the mesosystem
  D) the reaction range

Question 4

Individuals do not inherit a specific height, but a span of possible heights. The height they achieve is also determined by their level of nutrition. This is explained by the concept of
 
  A) genetic determinism.
  B) the exosystem.
  C) reaction range.
  D) heritability.

Question 5

Children in intellectually and socially enriched environments tend to show much greater differences in intelligence than those in disadvantaged environments. This illustrates the
 
  A) influence of genetics on the environment.
  B) effects of measurement errors in the research.
  C) failure of the No Child Left Behind Act.
  D) effect of the environment on heritability.


Title: The fact that a child's parents provide both her genetic inheritance and her living environment is ...
Post by: kkiahtherese on Mar 17, 2018
Answer to q. 1

B

Answer to q. 2

A

Answer to q. 3

D

Answer to q. 4

C

Answer to q. 5

D


Title: The fact that a child's parents provide both her genetic inheritance and her living environment is ...
Post by: dfysb54w on Mar 17, 2018
Thanks for your help <3