PSY-PC 1250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Prenatal Cocaine Exposure, Twin, Prenatal Development
4 Feb 2020
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Identical twins raised apart: genes may be cause of similarities, genes may lead to certain experiences (ex. the way you look could influence the way people interact with you and thus the way you experience things) Identical (monozygotic) vs. fraternal (dizygotic) twins: varies across characteristics that you are paying attention to (in some cases, very little difference between identical and fraternal twin pairs, while on other characteristics (such as extraversion), there is greater variability. ), behavior, neural activity, genetic activity, etc. lead to individual development [integrative process (transactional)--individual factors influence one another] [prenatal experience can influence development/birth is not the beginning: teratogens--environmental factors that can harm a child during prenatal development, ex. "born addicted " and go through withdrawal as a result (tremors, seizures, etc. ) [neonatal abstinence syndrome--a set of symptoms experienced by babies exposed to drugs in the womb]
