PSY 256 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1.1: Behavioral Neuroscience
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Things that shape you: genetic heritage, family and neighborhood, how quickly you changed, culture. Captured three fundamental characteristics of human development: nature and nurture, continuity and discontinuity. Universal and context-speci c: nature and nurture. The degree to which genetic or hereditary in uences and experiential or environmental in uences determine the kind of person you are. Nature and nurture shape a person mutually: not an either or scenario. One can have the genetic predisposition for cardiac disease but if they grow up in a healthy household they probably wont have a problem. Human development studies how nature and nurture jointly determine development: continuity and discontinuity. Whether a particular developmental phenomenon represents a smooth progression throughout the life span or a series of abrupt shifts. This is a blend of both when applied to developing: universal and context speci c development. Whether there is one path of development or several paths. Some believe everyone develops a certain way.
