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Psychology Chap 6
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Frontal Lobes | Behind your forehead |
| Parietal Lobes | At the top and to the rear |
| Occipital Lobes | At the back of your head |
| Temporal Lobes | Just above your ears |
| Plasticity | the brain's ability to change, especially during childhood, by reorganizing after damage or by building new pathways based on experience |
| Neurogenesis | The formation of new neurons |
| Environment | Every nongenetic influence, from prenatal nutrition to the people and things around us |
| Heredity | the genetic transfer of characteristics from parents to offspring |
| Behavior Geneticists | The study of the relative power and limits of genetic and environmental influence on behavior. |
| DNA (Deoxyribonucleic acid) Genes | A complex molecule containing the genetic information that makes up the chromosomes |
| Genome | The complete instructions for making an organism, consisting of all the genetic material in that organism's chromosomes |