PSYC 1020H Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Universal Grammar, Language Acquisition Device, Stone Age
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Nativists emphasized genes and natural characteristics. Empiricists focus was on learning and experience. Helped explain commonalities like language learning, attention, reasoning, emotion, memory, perception, sexual behaviour, and many other aspects about human behaviour. Tried to create a separation between learning and focused on individual differences like personality, mental ability, and other characteristics. Practically no one argues between nature vs nurture anymore, instead it"s a mixture of environment and heredity. The functional units of heredity; composed of dna and specify the structure of proteins. Can affect the kinds of experiences we have: a teenager with a genetic aptitude for school work may be more likely to join a spelling bee. Epigenetic: the study of the type of stable change in genetic expression. Dna four basic chemical elements make up dna: The researchers look for commonalities inside inheritance, (depression, Aggression) if these only exist within family members with the condition it can be a genetic landmark.