[PSY1102] - Midterm Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (93 pages long)

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: Rosalinde Klempan

Document Summary

Does nature (heredity/genetics) or nurture (environment/experience) guide development. He saw minds at birth as blank slate (tabula rasa) Putting emphasis on the environment: watson & skinner. Skinner - he formulated operate conditioning: nurture important. Interactionism (dominant view today: an interaction between heredity & environment guides development. Contains nucleus & cytoplasm bounded by cell membrane. Nucleus contains the genetic code: blueprint for cell development, division & function. The complete genetic instructions for making an organism. Bases are: adenine (a, thymine (t, guanine (g) and. Only pair up with a-t & g-c. Sequences all three billion pairs of nucleotides for humans. Only a fraction of the population of any species survives and passes on genes. Variations increasing survival changed are more likely to be passed on. Mutations: errors during dna, duplication may cause cancer or disease, are the source of genetic diversity plays an important role, we need all these types of genes.