developmental psychology 2 Flashcards
where does language and vision occur in the brain?
language - Broacas areas (frontal) wernikies area (temporal lobe)
vision - occipital lobe
whats the face and spoon experiment and its findings?
what - three spoons with things that imitated faces
findings - develop knowledge of what a face looks like quickly and can tell difference between mother and other women
how many genes do fraternal/dizogytic twins share?
50%
how much genes do monozygotic/indentical twins share?
100%
whats the correlation of personalities for twins?
-1 to 1
Whats cystic fibrosis?
- sccaring and cysts in pancreas
- purely genetic but environments can interact
- recessive genes
Whats PKU
- genetic disorder that is effected by diet
- genes interact with environmental
passed through ressecive genes
Whats complex behaviour they experiment, conclusions and inference?
experiment - breed active and non active mice
conclusions = activity in mice is controlled by genes (polygenetic)
active x active = increase in activity through generations
random = activity level remains the same through generations
inactive x inactive = decrease in activity levels across generations
interference - could human activity be to do with genes -> adhd
Whats the maze dull and maze bright experiment?
experiment - breed maze dull and maze bright mice through selective breeding. They then grow up in three different conditions then test them on there ability to make it through the maze
conclusion…
impoverished condition - Both have high mean errors
standard - maze dull have less mean errors then maze bright
enriched - both have low mean errors
environmental contributions to IQ
- 40-70% of IQ is genes
conclusions of the environmental contributions to genes
- genetics is the main factor
- genetic influence on IQ increases as you age and environments change as interests and environments change
genes = range of iq
environment = determines where you end up in the range
schizophrenia - genes vs environment
- shows that sharing genes increases chances of having it showing its mainly genetic. But even if you share no genes there a low chance that you’ll get schizophrenia from living in the same environment as someone with it showing it has an environmental component
genes - hereditary disorder + environment - family factors, social class, parental insult and stress = schizophrenia
genes + environment =
behavioural phenotype
whats a teratogen and an example of one in the critical period
teratogen - effects development leading to abnormalities and death
thalidomide - antineusisea drug shuts down part of brain that tells the body to sleep. Effecting limb development by preventing new blood vessel growth
CP= day 24-49
whats the critical period
18-60
- time when biological/environmental effects impact development
whats fetal alcohol syndrome ?
- alcohol reduces oxygen to the womb and interfere with metabolic hormone
- CP = week 10 to birth
causes - thin upper lip and short nose, flat mid face etc
whats imprinting?
when you form a connection and imprint of the first moving thing you see within the critical period
Lorenz - geese
geese CP= 13-16 hours
ducks Cp = 8-24 hours
What did Henry hallow experiment and what did he find? (monkey isolates)
experiment - isolated monkeys, got no physical touch
results
- deficit and social behaviour but cognitive abilities remained the same
- increased self directed stereotypical behaviours
- can be recovered if paired with a younger monkey within the critical period
-argues that the critical period for social development is over 12 months
What happened to Oxana Malaya ?
- raised by dogs for 6 years
- social and language deficits