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Study Questions Number 12 |
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) | ||