Study Questions Number 12
Discussion/Writing Assignment

Moeller Chapter 4. The child's contribution: Genetic, biological, and temperamental factors. Pages 72-97.

Date: 10-14-04
Psychology/Criminal Justice 317

Hal S. Bertilson, Ph.D.
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1. Be able to define diathesis-stress model, concordance rate, and heritability. (72-75)
2. Be able to name and define the three genotype-environment correlations. (75-76)
3. What is a genetic niche? What effect does genetic niche have on heritability estimates? Why? (80)
4. What is the Behavioral Activation System (BAS)? What does it do? What is the Behavioral Inhibition System? What does it do? (81-82)
6. Learning from punishment and passive avoidance is due to which (Behavioral Activation System or Behavioral Inhibition System)? Why? (82)
7. According to Gray's theory, children with an overactive BAS might do what? Why? (82)
8. According to Gray's theory, children with an underactive BIS might be what? Why? (82)
9. Deficiencies in the frontal and prefrontal cortices might have what effect? (83)
10. How may highly aggressive children be characterized in terms of heart rate and skin conductance recovery rate? How are these findings interpreted? (86-88)
11. What is the child effects theory? How can the evidence for the child effects theory be characterized? (92-95)