PSYCH 1XX3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Zygosity, Behaviorism, Amir Abdullah Khan Niazi
14 Apr 2016
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Gene-environment interactions across an individual"s lifespan: evolution. Gene-environment interactions across the evolutionary history of a species: neuroscience the study of the nervous system. Introduction: development refers to the changes and continuity that occur within the individual between conception and death, maturation. Biologically-timed unfolding of changes within the individual"s genetic plan: learning the acquisition of neuronal representations of new information relatively permanent changes in our thoughts, behaviours, and feelings as a result of our experience. The interactionist perspective: maturation and learning interact. View that holds, that maturation and learning interact during development. Without minimal level input to learn from outside world, maturation will be delayed or absent. Maturation learning (one can affect the other) Four ways to measure abilities in infants: habituation. A decrease in the responsiveness to a stimulus following it"s repeated presentation: dishabituation. An increase in the responsiveness to a stimulus that is somehow different from the habituated stimulus: event related potentials.
