PSYC 220 Lecture Notes - Neuroplasticity, Neurogenesis, Allele
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Plasticity: neural plasticity refers to the ability of neurons to change in structure/function over time, demonstrated by various effects, including those related to the environment experience, children exposed to toxins prenatally, eg. "split brain" patients no longer have an intact corpus callosum: this provides a research opportunity, eg. Nature vs. nurture debate: the longstanding debate of whether specific behaviours are caused by genetics or the environment (nature vs. nurture) is a false dichotomy, false dichotomy: either this or that, no combination of the two. It"s almost always a complex and multidirectional relationship between genetics, the environment and behaviour. If a single copy of a dominant gene is present, the particular characteristics controlled by that gene will be displayed: eg. Brown eyes, dark hair, etc: for recessive genes, the particular characteristics controlled by the gene will only be displayed if the partner genes inherited by both parents are recessive, eg.
