PSY210H5 Lecture Notes - Fetus, Nicotine, Random Assignment
Document Summary
Role of experience vs role of innate endowment (debate of the origins of the human mind) ! Contemporary see interaction between both in development ! Genes help shape environment and environment in uence genes ! Range of reaction - how the environment changes genes - heredity does not rigidly x behaviour but instead establishes a range of possible developmental outcomes that may occur in response to different environments! Teratogen - pg86 (most sensitive and threatening in embryonic stage) ! Embryonic stage - when women are unaware of their pregnancy ! The most serious damage from teratogens is rst 2-8 weeks ! Generally thought to damage the developing fetus ! Teratogen effects are exerted mostly during critical periods ! Each different teratogen exerts different effects ! Maternal or fetal genotypes interacts with effects ! Sometimes the effects are delayed (could occur in the child"s adolescence) ! One"s effects can intensify effects of others !
