Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Human Hair Color, Sickle-Cell Disease, Zygosity

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

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*for the midterm room ns 145* check owl. *oct 4 oct 23 for psychology discussion online* Identical twins genetically identical; see if they have similar behaviors, disorders. If you"re right handed, language is on the left side of the brain (80% of population) lateralization pattern. Left visual field right hemisphere, right visual field left hemisphere. Nature (something we are born with) versus nurture (something we learn); both interact and are important to determine human behavior. Many people use reaction time as a measure of intelligence. Faster reaction time correlated with higher iq tests: environment can influence protein synthesis as well, genes determine range of possibilities, but not degree of expression. Critical period environmental exposure at specific interval is critical. White crowned sparrow must hear adult song between 7th and 60th day. If they don"t hear it during that time, they won"t ever develop white-crowned sparrow songs (deprivation studies)