PSYC 3100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Phenotype, Horizontal Transmission, Bird Vocalization

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3100
• Professor: Pat Barclay

Document Summary

Lecture 3 - genes, development & behaviour & why nature and nurture won"t. In some systems eggs in high temperature will develop into females and low temperature will develop into males. It is both nature and nurture: bird song, each bird has a particular pattern that they sing, many song birds learn this in particular thing in their life called the critical period. If they are exposed to their song during that person they will learn it and perform it as adults. If they are not exposed to it at that time they will never learn it: natural selection selects for developmental processes (for example tendency to seek certain information in environment) Genetic influence not equal unchangeable: all genes require activation to have influence environment affects activation, effects of abnormal and enriched environments, pku. Natural selection: evolutionary stable strategies (ess: stable equilibrium, bu-stable equilibrium, frequency-dependent selection.