Why Is Color-Blindness More Common in Males Than in Females

question 31

Multiple Choice

Why is color-blindness more common in males than in females?

• A) Because females would have to receive one copy of the recessive color blindness gene to actually express the trait.
• B) Because a male only needs to receive the recessive gene from his mother to be color-blind.
• C) Because color-blindness is an Y-linked trait.
• D) Females are hemizygous
• E) Males are never hemizygous

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Definitions:

Focus-of-Attention Bias

The tendency to pay more attention to certain stimuli or aspects of the environment over others, often affecting judgments and decisions.

Schema-Irrelevant

Information or stimuli that do not fit into an existing cognitive schema or framework, often requiring new schema to be developed or old ones to be modified.

Situational Attribution

A decision by an observer to attribute a behavior to environmental forces facing the person who performed it rather than to that person’s internal state. See also Dispositional attribution.

Dispositional Attribution

A decision by an observer to attribute a behavior to the internal state(s) of the person who performed it rather than to factors in that person’s environment.