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Psych. 101 #2
Nature V.S Nurture
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Behavior Geneticists | study our differences and weigh the relative effects of heredity and environment. |
| Genome | |
| Separated twin studies | Personality, intelligence, Abilities, attitudes, Interests, fears, Brain Waves, heart rate |
| Separated twins -note | fraternal twins are greater than identical twins |
| Temperament | refers to a person’s stable emotional reactivity and intensity. Identical twins express similar temperaments, suggesting heredity predisposes temperament |
| Physical traits harder to change | psychological traits are liable to change with environmental experience. |
| Genes provide | choices for the organism to change its form or traits when environmental variables change. Therefore, genes are pliable or self-regulating. |
| Thomas Bouchard, Genetic Influences | Personality Mental Ability Psychological Interests Psychiatric Illnesses Social Attitudes |
| Environment | can affect gene activity,Genes can influence traits which affect responses |
| Parenting influences on children | attitude, manners, beliefs, values, faith, politics |
| Parental influence | largely genetic |
| Early postnatal experiences ,Rosenzweig | affects brain development, experiments on rats, thicker cortex |
| conforming to our surroundings | people tend to adapt to their environment, so Peers are influential in such areas as learning to cooperate with others, gaining popularity, and developing interactions. |
| Culture | is composed of behaviors, ideas, attitudes, values and traditions shared by a group. we can change culture |
| Cultural Norms | rules for accepted and expected behavior |
| Cultures change over time. | This change cannot be attributed to changes in the human gene pool because genes evolve very slowly. |
| Individualist cultures | (European) raise their children as independent individuals |
| collectivist cultures | (Asian) raise their children as interdependent. |
| Males and females differ biologically, genetically similar | in body fat, muscle, height, onset of puberty, and life expectancy. |
| Aggression | men are physically more aggressive |
| Aggression | men are physically more aggressive |
| testosterone levels in uterus | more makes men |
| xx vs xy | 23 pair of chromosomes determine sex |
| testosterone levels in uterus | more makes men |
| Aggression | men are physically more aggressive |
| xx vs xy | 23 pair of chromosomes determine sex |
| testosterone levels in uterus | more makes men |
| Sexual differentiation | biological, psychological and social |
| genes and hormones | play a huge part in picking gender |
| gender roles ,Gender Identity | expected roles, who we are |
| Social Learning Theory | proposes that we learn gender behavior like any other behavior—reinforcement, punishment, and observation. |
| Gender Schema Theory | suggests that we learn a cultural “recipe” of how to be a male or a female, which influences our gender- based perceptions and behaviors. |
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