Assess your understanding of this learning pathway by selecting the correct answer for each of the following questions:

• Which of the following examples would demonstrate the influence of nature on behaviour?
  • A basketball coach goes to over 200 games per year to recruit potential players for her team.
    • Incorrect.
  • Grandma drives the kids to soccer practice everyday after school so they can play a sport they love.
    • Incorrect.
  • A family stocks the cupboards with nutritious snacks to sustain their young athletes.
    • Incorrect.
  • A young woman is very tall and fast and as a result is very adept at playing sports like volleyball and basketball.
    • Correct.
• _____ are the basic units of heredity, while their expression is based on environmental experiences, referred to as _____.
  • Chromosomes; heritability
    • Incorrect.
  • Genes; epigenetics
    • Correct.
  • Chromosomes; epigenetics
    • Incorrect.
  • Genes; heritability
    • Incorrect.
• __________________ is the study of DNA that is modified by environmental events and the genetic changes that are transmitted to offspring.
  • Epigenetics
    • Incorrect.
  • Molecular genetics
    • Incorrect.
  • Behavioral genetics
    • Correct.
  • Genetic neuroscience
    • Incorrect.
• Which of the following is NOT an example of how genetics influences the expression of specific traits?
  • A set of twins both have IQs that are two standard deviations above the population mean.
    • Incorrect.
  • A young girl loves pickled vegetables just like her mother.
    • Correct.
  • A set of twins is born with curly red hair and dimples.
    • Incorrect.
  • A young boy has an outgoing personality from his father.
    • Incorrect.
• A person’s shoe size is an example of:
  • a phenotype.
    • Correct.
  • a genotype.
    • Incorrect.
  • heritability
    • Incorrect.
  • epigenetics
    • Incorrect.
• It is NOT unusual for a(n) _____ child who has suffered a degree of brain damage in a car accident to make a complete recovery several months later. This is because in ______ .
  • older; spare neurons and pathways to help take over function.
    • Incorrect.
  • older; established pathways are protected from long-lasting damage.
    • Incorrect.
  • younger; spare neurons and pathways to help take over function.
    • Correct.
  • younger; established pathways are protected from long-lasting damage.
    • Incorrect.