PSY 1102 Study Guide - Twin, Gender Identity, Y Chromosome

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Chapter 4 nature, nurture and human diversity: we are each unique; we look, sound different, we have varying personalities, interests, and cultural and family backgrounds, but our human family shares a common biological heritage, and also common behavioural tendencies, our shared brain architecture predisposes us to sense the world, develop language, and feel hunger through identical language, and through identical mechanisms, we all start fearing strangers at about 8 months, and as adults we like people with attitudes and attributes similar to our own, our genes (nature) and environments (nurture) define us. Behaviour genetics: predicting individual differences: behaviour geneticists the study of the relative power and limits of genetic and environmental influences on behaviour. (study our differences and weigh the effects and interplay of heredity and environment), environment every nongenetic influence, from prenatal nutrition to the people and things around us.

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