PSY 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Imaginary Audience, Nature Genetics, Ejaculation

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 202
• Professor: Meagan Mackenzie

Document Summary

Branch of psychology that studies physical, cogniive, and social change throughout the life span. Post-hoc fallacy: false assumpion that because one event occurred before another event, it must have cause that event. Bidirecional inluence: children"s experiences inluence development, but their development also inluences their experiences. Research design: cross-secional, cohort efects, longitudinal design. Geneic predisposiions can drive us to select and create paricular environments, leading to the mistaken appearance of a pure efect of nature. Environment: gene expression: some genes turn on only in response to speciic environmental events. Interacion - genes predispose, experiences mold: gene-environments and interacions: the impact of genes on behavior depends on the environment in which the behaviour develops, coninuity vs. disconinuity. Gradual vs stage-like: stability vs. change. Prenatal development and the newborn the prenatal period & birth. Prenatal = before birth; concepion to labour (38 weeks) Zygote stage (0 to 2nd week) cells are dividing and difereniaing.