PS102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Kwadukuza, James Marcia, Prefrontal Cortex
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Chapter 4: human development: the study of changes in behaviour & mental processes over time. Changes in biological, physical, psychological, & behavioural processes as we age. The big questions: critical & sensitive periods. Sensitive periods=optimal age range: nature & nurture. Lung & skin cancer vs brain and bone cancer: continuity vs discontinuity. Example: caterpillar experiences quantitative changes as it grows, and qualitative changes when it turns into a butterfly. Critical period: points in development when ind extremely sensitive to envio= certain brain functions &behaviours. Cohort-sequential design: looks at how ind from different age groups compare to one another & follow them over time (compare diff ages at same time) Different cohorts grew up in diff time period. Genetic makeup sum total of all genes that person inherits. Phenotype way in which genes actually expressed of observed characteristics of genes. Female-xx and male-xy: y chromosome contains tdf.
