PSY 2114 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Mass Media, Intellectual Disability, Puberty
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Lecture 1: overview and study of human development, jan 13th, 2016. [highlight anything important you think you"ll forget!: themes in human development. Nature/nurture, the active child/adult, continuity/discontinuity, global/context specific, pathways of development. Nature our biological endowment, genes we inherited. Nurture the physical, social, and cultural environment. Biology and environment interact to shape development. Deficiency in enzyme to metabolize phenylalanine (mutated gene) Higher probability of developing schizophrenia if relative is diagnosed. If identical twin has it, you have 50% chance of developing it. Your genes or biological predispositions encourage you to seek out certain experiences or environments. Your genes or biological predispositions tend to elicit certain environmental responses from others. People seek you out to play on the volleyball team because you are tall. Epigenetics the study of the chemical reactions that switch parts of the genome on and off at specific times and locations, and the factors that influence it.
