PSYCH 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Radiation Effects Research Foundation, Neuroglia, Schull
14 Jan 2017
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On the exam so know it -> notes on all 3 taken on different document. Developmental psychology defined: the study of the influence of maturation and experience on the emergence and activation of multiple psychological processes across distinct developmental periods. Effect of maturation and experience over time on an individual. Infancy: prenatal, childhood, adolescence, early adulthood, middle adulthood, late adulthood, erik erikson (understand his description per stage) Developmental psychologist look at what happens at different time frames. One frame on these questions: genotypes, phenotypes, and heritability estimation (biology vs. Genotypes are given constitutionally at moment of conception: our genotype is our genetic totality, the biological blueprint that unfolds. we cannot observe it directly. Developed at conception -> there with you forever. Phenotypes are the product of, or interaction between, genotypes and experience/environment: they are the observable characteristics of the organism. What they look like, how they behave.
