PSYCH 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Language Development, Psych, Todd Marinovich

• School: UMASS-Amherst
• Department: Psychology & Brain Sciences
• Course: PSYCH 100
• Professor: Tammy Rahhal

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What are the influences of nurture (the environment) on traits and behaviors: early environment, ever heard of a. i. Listening to mozart music would make them smarter a. iii. In-utero language tapes: why do we do this? b. i. Rats raised in isolation vs. with toys and playmates b. i. 1. a. Found that rats with a more enriched environment has a heavier brain, more neural activity: 2 questions to consider c. i. Do neural changes translate into a cognitive or emotional advantage? c. i. 1. Need interaction too not only having stimulation: parental influence, freud parents exert a huge influence on their developing children a. i. Temperament - no: peer influence, huge influence of peers on their friends a. i. Language development (parents have accents but the child doesn"t) a. iii. Preferences i. e. clothing (like umass girls), music: could it still be only genes? b. i. Birds of a genetic feather flock together? b. ii. Evolutionary explanation: culture, what is it? a. i.