PSY 230 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Sickle-Cell Disease, Yolk Sac, Hemolytic Disease Of The Newborn

• School: University of Miami
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 230
• Professor: Hurtado

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Critical period: of shorter duration: more likely to be found in early prenatal development, may also refer to more susceptibility to harm (e. g. , exposure to teratogens during first trimester of pregnancy) Plasticity: respect to some characteristic: the ability to change as a result of experience. Nature: nativism holds that behavior is programmed into the brain and inherited. Nurture: empiricism: assume an infinite ability to change mind and behavior, total plasticity. Propose quantitative changes: changes occur gradually over time. Propose that development proceeds in a step-like fashion: qualitative changes occur from one stage to the next. Experience-dependent: abilities that develop in some individuals of a species, but not others, development of these abilities depends on experience, neurons get activated and connections strengthened with certain types of experience. Vicarious learning: learning through observations, no reinforcement necessary. Junk dna: noncoding dna due to evolution. Chromosomes: every human cell contains 46 chromosomes/23 pairs, autosomes - 22 autosomal pairs.