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NATURE vs. NURTURE
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What makes you you?
• Is human behavior instinctive or is it learned?
• How does our individual heredity predispose our differing personalities, preferences & abilities?
• To what extent are we shaped by our heredity and our environment?
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Genes: Our Biological Blueprint
• Genetics is the study of how heredity-
the manner in which traits & characteristics are passed from parent to offspring.
A trait is the characteristic being expressed: a crooked little finger, a dimple in the chin.
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• In 1867, Gregor Mendel, a Moravian abbot, gave modern genetics its start, when he reported the results of his research on breeding peas.
• Mendel believed that every trait was controlled by elements that were transmitted from one generation to the next.
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He called these elements:
• Genes: the biochemical units of heredity
• Many genes together make up chromosomes
• Genes contain a segment of DNA,
containing the code for a particular protein,which is the building block of our physical development.
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Chromosomes
• Threadlike structures made up of DNA
• 46 pairs in each cell
• 23 received from each parent
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Chromosomes
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Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA)
• A complex molecule
• Contains the genetic information of each chromosome
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Nucleotides
• The four letter code to distinguish genes
• Letters A,T,C, or G are used
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The Genetic Makeup of One Cell
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Genome
• The complete genetic instructions for a given organism
• All the genetic material in an organism’s chromosome pattern
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Mutation
• Random errors in the replication of genes from parent to child which result in change of an individual’s genetic code
• Can be desirable or undesirable changes
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Behavior Genetics
• Studies the relative influences of genetic and environmental influences on behavior
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Environment
• Any influence, other than genetic, on an individual’s behavior
• Include:
– The culture someone is raised in
– One’s family
– Socioeconomic group
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Nature and Nurture Issue
• Nature side entails the genetic code passed from parent to child.
• Nurture side involves all environmental influences from prenatal development on.
• Which parts of human behavior can we attribute to nature and which can be attributed to nurture?
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Predisposition
• The possibility of something happening through the genetic code
• Genetics creates the potential for something
• The environment may or may not trigger the predisposition
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Nature and Similarity
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Similarities
• Despite our differences, human beings throughout the world share a number of similarities
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Evolutionary Psychology
• The study of evolution of behavior and the mind
• Uses the principle of natural selection
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Natural Selection
• Darwin’s principle that those traits contributing to the survival of the species will most likely be passed on to the next generation
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Nature and Individual Differences: Twin Studies
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Identical Twins
• Twins who developed from a single fertilized egg
• Are genetically identical
• Called monozygotic twins
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Fraternal Twins
• Twins who developed from separate eggs
• Genetically no different than other siblings
• Called dizygotic twins
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Heritability
• The proportion of an individual’s characteristics that can be attributed to genetics (heredity)
• The degree to which traits are inherited
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Twin Studies
• Used to determine the heritability of a given trait
• Data is collected from both identical and fraternal twins on the trait
• Compare the data between the two groups
• Important not to conclude that a specific behavior is inherited
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Nature and Individual Differences:
Adoption Studies
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Adoption Studies
• Compare adopted children’s traits with those of their biological parents and their adopted parents
• Trait similarities with biological parents: attribute the trait to heredity
• Trait similarities with the adopted parents: attribute the trait to the environment
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TEMPERAMENT STUDIES
• Temperament is a person’s characteristic emotional reactivity and intensity.
• Heredity seems to predispose human temperament differences.
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HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT
• Ask your parents what your temperament was like when you were a child?
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Environment Matters: Early Learning and Brain Development
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Early Brain Development
• Early experience is critical in brain development.
• In later life continued use is necessary to maintain neural connections in the brain.
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Environment Matters: Peer and Parent
Influence
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Peer Influences
• Peer influence in adolescence is very powerful.
• Many studies suggest a peer group is correlated with school performance, smoking, and other behaviors.
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Environment Matters: Cultural Influences
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Culture
• Shared attitudes, beliefs, norms and behaviors of a group
• Culture is communicated from one generation to the next
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Norms
• Understood rules for accepted and expected behavior
• Consist of the “proper behavior” within a group
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Individualism
• Giving priority to one’s goals over the goals of the group
• Defining one’s identity in terms of personal attributes rather than the group’s identification
• Tend to see people as separate and independent
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Collectivism
• Giving priority to the goals of one’s group over one’s personal goals
• Defining one’s identity in terms of the group’s identification rather than personal attributes
• See people as connected to others• Individual needs are sacrificed for the
good of the group.
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Gender
The shaping of gender illustrates the effects of nature vs nurture.
Genes & hormones define gender, as well as our environment and our culture.
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Your sex is determined by your 23rd pair of chromosomes.
• The pair that came from your mother was an X chromosome.
• The pair that came from your father,
• Is either an X chromosome (a girl) or a
Y chromosome (a boy).
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Gender is socially constructed.
• Our gender roles, a set of expected behaviors for males and females, are determined by our culture’s norms.
• Society assigns each of us to a:
gender, the category of being male or female,
with the result being our
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• Gender identity, our sense of being male or female
and we become
Gender-typed, the exhibition of demonstrating traditional masculine or feminine roles.
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SOCIAL LEARNING THEORY
• States that children learn gender based behaviors by observing, imitation and by
• Being rewarded or punished.
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GENDER SCHEMA THEORY
• States that children learn gender from their cultures.
• They learn a sense of what it means to be a male or female from their culture, and then must adjust their behavior to fit what their society expects of them.
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