Interaction of Heredity and Environment Lesson

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A discussion about how much of a person’s characteristics are influenced by their genetics (nature) or their environment (nurture)

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Nature vs Nurture

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Genetics influence us from the inside and is part of the _______ arguement

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Nature

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Everything else other than ______ falls under the genetics category, upbringing or life experience like:

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Everything else other than GENETICS falls under the genetics category like: ENVIORNMENT, CONDITIONING, REWARDS, PUNISHMENTS that shape our behaviors

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Nuture shapes behavior using

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Shaping, Reinforcement and Associative Learning

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Associative Learning

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Associative learning is the process of learning to connect two or more stimuli, or a behavior and a stimulus

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This is an example of: Training an animal with treats when they are good or punishments when they are bad

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Associative Learning

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Nurture arguement - I can shape someone from the outside in no matter :

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how his genetics may interfere

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Not one of them are correct. It is NOT nature or nurture but nature ___ nurture

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AND

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Nurture and Nature work together to shape to determine the charcterisitcs

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Genetics determine many things at BIRTH like:

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Eye color, Sex, Body shape Hair texture, Temperament, etc.

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Temperment is:

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a person’s characteristic way of responding to the world, including their emotional reactions and behavioral style.

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This is an example of what:

For example, some children persist with an activity and others are easily distracted. Some respond very intensely and others respond very mildly to the same stimulus.

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Temperment

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Nurture: A persons’ ___________ and ____________ work upon these characteristics given at birth

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A persons’ EXPERIENCES and ENVIORNMENT work upon these characteristics given at birth

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Examples of Experiences and Enviornment

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Culture, Social Groups, Norms, Family

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Epigenetics research to :

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understand the interaction between Nurture and Nature

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Epigenetics ask how ______ can alter our _______

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Epigenetics ask how NURTURE can ALTER our NATURE

or ask how ENVIORNMENT CAN ALTER OUR GENETICS

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Nature or/and Nurture can influence

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1)Personality characteristics and prefrences
2) Intelligence
3) Psychological health
4) Language aquisition (the process by which people learn to understand and use language, whether as their first or second language)

Question 19

Two types of twins, ______ and ______

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Fraternal and Identical Twins

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Identical Twins have:

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Same DNA, same Sex, and are monozygotic

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Monozygotic

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From the Same egg

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Fraternal Twins are:

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Different DNA, No more genetically similar than non twin siblings
Might be same sex or opposite
Dizygotic

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Dizygotic

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From 2 eggs

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Twin studies help us understand:

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The influence between enviornment and herditay on human development

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If Identical twins were raised apart, any similarities between them may be attributed:

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to genes(NATURE)

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If Fraternal Twins are raised in the same enviornment their similarities can be attributed to their __________

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enviornment (Nurture)

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Twin studies, Adoption Studies (seperated and meet each other), Family Studies (family dynamics as twins are reared together or apart) and DNA studies reveal a lot about

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Relationship with nurture and nature specficically withing hertiability of these traits