PSYC 2000 : PSYC 2000 Exam 3 Study Guide Sp 2
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Psyc 2000 section 01&3, spring 2016 exam 3. Below are a list of concepts and names you should be familiar with before taking the exam. Continuity/ stages: is development gradual, continuous process or a sequenceof separate stages. Stability/ change: do our early personality traits persist through life, or do we become different as we age. Behavioral genetics: focuses on nature vs nurture, the twins video. Nature: refers to heredity, social interactions, personality, physical growth. Nurture: refers to the influenceof the enviornement, on all of thosesame things and includes parenting styles, physical suuroundings, economic factors and anything that can have an influence on development that does not come within the person. Dna- a special kind of molecule, (smallest particle of a substance that still has all the properties of that substance) These genes are located on rod-shaped structures called chromosomes. Recessive- recessive tend to fade to the background when paired to a more dominant gene.
