PSY 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Nucleolus, Behaviorism, New York Law School

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: Rosalinde Klempan

Document Summary

Does nature (heredity/genetics) or nurture (environment/experience) guide development. He saw minds at birth as blank slate (tabula rasa) Theory of evolution: principle of natural selection the survival of the fittest/ wanting to pass on your genes, we evolve from lower level species, nature important, the tree of life. Putting emphasis on the environment: watson & skinner. Skinner - he formulated operate conditioning: nurture important. Interactionism (dominant view today: an interaction between heredity & environment guides development. We look and find the gene in the cell within the nucleolus. The molecule containing genetic information in templates for the production of proteins. Molecule form is double helix (discovered by: watson and k. Humans inherit 23 from each parent (get 23 pairs or 46 in total) Contains nucleus & cytoplasm bounded by cell membrane. Nucleus contains the genetic code: blueprint for cell development, division & function. The complete genetic instructions for making an organism. Bases are: adenine (a, thymine (t, guanine (g) and.