nature and nurture. what makes you who you are? write down three things
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Chapter 1 Module 3Nature and nurture
What makes you who you are? Write down three things
Turn to your Partner
The genetic code passed along by your parents the moment you were conceived.
Ex. Being exposed to viruses or drugs while in the womb.
Consuming clean water and whole foods as opposed to lower quality foods and contaminated water
Nature
Nurture – the environmental factors that affect us from childhood to death.
Ex. Learning how your culture expects boys and girls to act.
Making life choices such as a career or where to live
Examples of Nurture
The presence of a predisposition for colon or breast cancer or some other disease does not necessarily doom one to getting the disease. Predisposition means that the possibilitiy of developing a disease exists. Whether that possibility will become reality often depends on environmental factors (poor diet, polluted air and stress)
What is predisposition?
Define predisposition on pg. 41
Write this down
Are your earlobes attached or not attached?
Can you flip your tongue?
When you interlock your fingers which thumb is on top (Not genetics)
Genetics
What is the belief of evolutionary psychology as to why humans are alike?
Read page 41 and 42
If you had an identical twin, but never met them would they grow up to be exactly like you?
How would they be similar?
How would they be different? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wd5Y3-
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Twins
Write this down.
Identical twins are natures clones. They are genetically the same. Beginning life from the same fertilized egg.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMIR6eNqbXQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7fAabLEtUI
Nature and individual differences
Write this down Fraternal twins develop from two different
fertilized eggs and are no more similar than any other two siblings
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBUddpCN8Vw
Fraternal Twins
Herit – comes from inherit. To possess something that someone else has given you. We inherit our traits and qualities from our parents.
Ability – Capability. A trait that is genetically passed on from one generation to the next. A trait capable of showing up in the children of people who possess that quality.
Heritability
What is heritability? What side of the nature-nurture debate do
twin studies seem to support? (give specificexamples)
Read pg. 43 Write this down
The biological parents are providing the nature and the adoptive parents are providing the nurture.
By the time a 2 week adopted girl becomes a 10 year old girl will her personality more closely resemble her biological or adopted parents personality?
Adoption Studies
What side of the nature-nurture debate do adoption studies seem to support? (give specific examples)
Adoption – write this down
How much credit do parents deserve for their child’s success?
How much blame should we heap on parents if we start smoking?
There are all sort of misguided claims. i.e. lenient parents who do not punish
children creates children who are troublemakers.
Environment Matters
Early learning Peer and parents Culture
3 possible answers
Use your brain or loose it.
Rats in under stimulated enviornments had a less developed cerebral cortex than those who had ramps, swings, wheels and other things to play with.
Early learning
Your friends influence you. Teens who hang around peers who smoke are more likely to begin smoking than those who do not.
Pre schoolers who will not eat a food at home are more likely to eat it if seated at a table with their friends.
Peer and parent
Culture is the shared attributes, beliefs , norms and behaviours across a group or community.
Ex. In Southern Europe, Asia, Africa and Central and South America mothers and babies sleep together in the same bed or in a bassinet next to the bed. In North America babies sleep in the crib often in a separate room.
Culture
Read pg. 46-49 How do the following environmental
influences affect development: a) early learning and brain
development? b) peers and parents? c) culture?
Write this down
Complete the self-test on pgs 51 – 53.
Self test
MC 1-D, 2-A, 3-D, 4-D, 5-C Matching A-6, B-4, C-5, D-2, E-1, F-11, G-8, H-9 Fill in blank 7. Collectivist, individualistic, 8. Heritability,
9. Culture.
Self test Answers
Identify nature as our genetic heritage passes on to us from our parents. Nurture is the environmental influences that shape behavior and cognition. Understand that while we inherit traits from our parents through genetics, we are not guaranteed to display those traits. Environmental influences can negate a predisposition leading to different behavior from an individual.
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