PSY 223 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Down Syndrome, Amniotic Fluid, Operant Conditioning

• School: University of Maine
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 223
• Professor: Hannah Lawerence

Document Summary

Nature refers to all of the genes and hereditary factors that influence who we are from our physical appearance to our personality characteristics. Nurture refers to all the environmental variables that impact who we are, including our early childhood experiences, how we were raised, our social relationships, and our surrounding culture: development is driven by nature (genes) 2. development is driven by nurture (environment) 3. development is part nature, part nurture. 4. development results from interaction of nature and nurture. Discontinuous development- happens in stages, development occurs in a serious of distinct stages. Continuous development happens in a straight upward arrow, development is a gradual, continuous process. Active- children play active roles in their own development. Equifinality is the ability to achieve the same results from differing initial conditions. Multifinality is basically the opposite, suggesting that similar conditions can lead to dissimilar results. Example starting at the same train station, taking different trains can lead to different places.