PY 352 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Red Hair

• School: University of Alabama
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PY 352
• Professor: Jeffrey G Parker

Document Summary

Evocative effects: environments respond to characteristics of children, especially biologically based characteristics because these are resistant to change, children may be said to create the environments they grow up in because of their nature they evoke it. Niche picking: as they grow older, children determine the environment that has the most influence on them, they seek involvement in circumstances compatible with their nature, try to avoid circumstances that are incompatible. Behavioral genetics: the study of genetic contributions to individual variability. What we can say with certainty: virtuatlly all psychological traits show some influence of genetics.