PSY210H1 Lecture Notes - Libido, Behavioural Genetics, Epigenetics
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Cc sarah spence and justin mcneil when e-mailing essay to ta. Things that make you the unique person you are. No one else has your environmental upbringing as you. Different developmental cultures in an eastern versus western person. Lifecycle forces: indicates that the same experiences occurring at different times mean different things. Example: 16 year old versus 30 year old getting pregnant. Whether our development is inborn (biological in nature-we are born with it) or do we have to work for it (learning-environment influencing us). Tony represents the nurture aspect, anyone can be him. Child has no beliefs, values, morals, etc. When the child becomes an adult with beliefs, values, it"s because society has made them into that. Example: becoming a doctor, saint or murder because we have done that to them. They think the same way but children have less knowledge about the world. We can"t treat children differently from each other because they are essentially the same.
