FRHD 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Informed Consent, Albert Bandura, Hemoglobin
1 Oct 2013
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The science of human development seeks to understand how & why people change over time. Developmentalists recognize that growth over the life span is multidirectional, multicontextual, multicultural, multidisciplinary, and plastic. Replication: repeating the procedures & methods of a study w/ different participants. This is often a 6th step and an important one. Nurture: refers to environmental influences beginning w/ the health & diet of the embryo"s mother & continuing lifelong including family, school, community & society. Some people think traits are inborn and that children are innately good or bad while other people stress nurture, blaming/crediting parents or circumstances, drugs or food etc. Question is how much not which b/c both affect characteristic. Genes do predispose people to be influenced by environment but the impact of environment depends partly on genetic vulnerability. A new discipline within genetics, epigenetics, explores the many ways environmental forces alter genetic expression.
