PSYC 190 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Behavioral Engineering, Selective Breeding, Phenotype
Document Summary
Nature vs nurture: behaviorism focuses on role of learning in human psychology. 1: 0, 1, residual (r) = subtract actual data point from predicted data point, underestimated = negative value. I feel that eugenics is still very much relevant today, despite being heavily associated with wwii, as there exists the crispr babies (he jiankui"s research). Q3: in the three observations that harris uses to support her argument, it seems that the children all had enrichment to their lives that could have had a greater impact on their. Such as in the case of an impacted orphanage, the children often lack affection and attention (silent babies) and there is a correlation with learning disabilities and increased trusting of strangers. The use of "nurture" as a synonym for "environment" is based on the assumption that what influences children"s development, apart from their genes, is the way their parents bring them up. Socialization researchers: coursekey contacts, engineering fadee@coursekeyeducation. com, melissa@coursekey. com.
