Human behaviour heredity Questions and Answers

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The study of human behavior heredity explores how genetic and environmental factors influence personality, intelligence, and behavior patterns. This topic often appears in logical reasoning questions and answers for exams like UPSC, SSC, and Railways. Understanding heredity helps students connect biology with behavioral sciences, analyzing traits passed through generations. In reasoning-based aptitude tests, heredity questions assess your ability to think critically about cause-effect relationships and logical patterns. By practicing reasoning questions for competitive exams, you gain insights into how inherited and learned behaviors shape human responses—an important concept for general science and analytical reasoning sections alike.

Human behaviour heredity

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11. The hereditary units we receive from our parents and transmit to our offspring are carried by microscopic particles, known as

  • Genes
  • Chromosomes
  • Glands
  • None of the above
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12. Developmental changes that occur across all stages of life is emphasized by

  • Cognitive
  • Life span approach
  • Ecology
  • Genetics
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13. A female may born with only, one X chromosome instead of the usual XX. This condition is known as

  • Klinefelter’s syndrome
  • Turner’s syndrome
  • Down’s syndrome
  • None of the above
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14. Which of the following is a significant development in the process of evolution that differentiates human being from other species?

  • Bipedalism
  • Encephalization
  • Language development
  • All of the above
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15. Intake of which of the following drugs by women during pregnancy have harmful effects on fetus and increase the frequency of congenital abnormalities?

  • Marijuana
  • Cocaine
  • Heroin
  • All of the above
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16. According to whom, physical punishments of deprivation are power plays?

  • Hoffman
  • Bandura and Wlaters
  • Kohlberg
  • None of the above
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17. Delinquency is often associated with

  • Low parental support
  • Inappropriate discipline
  • Family discord
  • All of the above
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18. Who among the following study the relationship between complex behaviors and processes in the nervous system?

  • Bio-psychologists
  • Neuro-psychologists
  • Physiological psychologists
  • All of the above
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19.  Who was Jean Piaget?

  • Psychologist
  • Philosopher
  • Biologist
  • None of the above
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20. The course of development in man, as in other organisms, is shaped by

  • Maturation
  • Learning
  • Both (a) and (b)
  • None of the above
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