[PSYC 4364] - Midterm Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (18 pages long)
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In union of parents, they contribute genetic material in that material, genes exist that code for a trait. **there is some process at some level whereby one generation can influence the probability of characteristics in the next generation. You get genes but that"s not all you get: because traits develop in an environment, and each factor effects the development of the trait. Through a cascade of events: you don"t develop the whole system, and dna could never produce a trait without the system. Dna can produce amino acids and that"s about it; after that is the whole cascade. You inherit a very similar cascade that leads to a very similar trait: dna and not-dna that collectively and collaboratively produces you. Give up idea of induction and preformationism. Everything is genetic but everything is environmental; the genes can"t exist outside of the environment (false dichotomy)
