Psychology 2410A/B Lecture Notes - Optometry, Observational Learning, Social Learning Theory

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2410A/B
• Professor: Prof

Document Summary

Often has a time limit where they must be exposed to the environment to develop normally (critical or sensitive periods) example: if a child doesn"t acquire language within a critical period language acquisition is very different. Absence of ste derails development: experience dependent processes - ise - ideographic development - the development that is driven by the individual environment, not everyone encounters this. Absence is not detrimental (whether you play sports or a playing an instrument will improve some things but if you don"t do it it wont have a huge effect) Correcting 5 misconceptions about heritability: heritability is not the same thing as something being inherited. Heritability is the amount of variance in the trait that"s due to variance in the genes. Inherited refers to whether a trait has a genetic basis (whether the gene has been passed from parent to offspring)