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Nature versus NurtureMs. Simon
October 18, 2010
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Homework
• Read Myers pgs 95-107
Answer Questions on Website
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Do Now:
How are you like your parents?
How are you different from your parents?
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Aim: To what extent do our genes and environment contribute to our
psychology?
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Nature, Nurture, and Human Diversity
Similarities
Differences
BehaviorsLanguage
Very different languages
BiologyOrgans and body functions
Size/shape can vary, disease can change, development
Brain Same brain architecture
Asymmetry across genders
Genes Same set of chromosomes
Different alleles, mutations, X, Y
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Genes: Our Codes for LifeChromosomes
contain DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) are situated in the nucleus of a cell.
Humans have 23pairs of chromosomefor a total of 46
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Genes: Our Codes for Life
Segments within DNA consist of genes that make proteins to determine our
development.
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Genome
Genome is the set of complete genetic instructions for making an organism
How do our genes make us who we are?
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Behavior Genetics: Predicting Individual Differences
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Twin Biology
Studying the effects of heredity and environment on two sets of twins,
identical and fraternal, has come in handy.
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Twins and Procedures
Behavior geneticists’ effects of shared and unique environments on total or
partial genetic makeup.
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Separated Twins
Separated Twins
Personality, Intelligence
Abilities, Attitudes
Interests, Fears
Brain Waves, Heart Rate
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Separated Twins
Critics of separated twin studies note that such similarities can be found
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Adoption Studies
Adoption studies, as opposed to twin studies, suggest that adoptees tend to be different from their adoptive parents and
siblings.
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Adoptive Studies
Adoptive studies strongly point to the simple fact that biologically related children turn out to be different in a
family. So investigators ask:
Do siblings have differing experiences?
Do siblings, despite sharing half of their genes, have different combinations of the other half of their genes?
Ultimate question: Does parenting have an effect?
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Parenting
Parenting does have an effect on biologically related and unrelated
children.
Parenting Influences children’s
Attitudes, Values
Manners, Beliefs
Faith, Politics
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Temperament Studies
Temperament refers to a person’s stable emotional reactivity and intensity.
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Heritability
Heritability refers to the extent to which the differences among people are
attributable to genes.
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Heritability Examples
Personality:
Mental Ability:
Schizophrenia:
Depression:
Alcoholism:
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Group Differences
If genetic influences help explain individual diversity in traits, can the
same be said about group differences?
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Nature and Nurture
Genes provide choices for the organism to change its form or traits when environmental variables change.
Therefore, genes are self-regulating.
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Genes self-regulate in uteru
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuWTmd4f7lo
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Gene-Environment Interaction
Genes can influence traits which affect responses, and environment can affect
gene activity.
Example: A genetic predisposition that makes a child restless and hyperactive
evokes an angry response from his parents. A stressful environment can
trigger genes to manufacture neurotransmitters leading to depression.
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Gene-Environment Interaction
Genes and environment affect our traits individually, but more important are their
interactive effects.
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What is the fundamental goal of all living things?
TO SPREAD OUR GENES!
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Evolutionary Psychology: Understanding Human Nature
Molecular genetics studies why we as organisms are distinct.
Evolutionary psychology studies why we as humans are alike. In particular, it studies the evolution of behavior and
mind using principles of natural selection.
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What is natural selection?
Natural selection is an evolutionary process through which adaptive traits are
passed on to ongoing generations
What traits would be selected for?
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Artificial Selection
Biologists like Belyaev and Trut (1999) were able to artificially rear and
domesticate wild foxes, selecting them for friendly traits.
Any trait that is favored naturally or artificiallyspreads to future generations.
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Human Traits
A number of human traits have been identified as a result of pressures
afforded by natural selection.
……Can you think of any?
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Why do infants fear strangers when they become mobile?
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Why are most parents so passionately devoted to their children?
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Why do people fear spiders and snakes and not electricity and guns?
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How do our early experiences, our family, our community and
our culture affects these differences?
We have looked at how genes influence our developmental differences. What
about the environment?
Parents and Early Experiences
We begin with the prenatal environment.
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Prenatal Environment
Identical twins who share the same placenta (b) are more alike than those
who do not (a), suggesting prenatal influences on psychological traits.
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1. Intense and reactive infants become unusually anxious and
aroused when facing new or strange situations. This best illustrates the
importance of:a. the X chromosome.
b. temperament.c. personal space.d. individualism.
2. Estimates of the heritability of personality traits are most directly associated with the research efforts
of:a. social learning theorists.
b. behavior geneticists.c. evolutionary psychologists.d. gender schema theorists.
3. In emphasizing that heredity's effects on behavior depend on a
person's home environment, psychologists are highlighting the
importance of:a. the double helix.b. gene complexes.
c. collectivism.d. nature-nurture interactions.
4. Bacteria that resist a hospital's antibiotics rapidly multiply as other bacteria die off. This best illustrates:
a. collectivism.b. behavior genetics.
c. heritability.d. natural selection.
5. It has been suggested that men in all cultures tend to marry women younger than themselves because men are genetically predisposed to
seek female features associated with youthful fertility. This suggestion
best illustrates:a. social learning theory.
b. behavior genetics.c. Freudian psychology.
d. an evolutionary perspective.
6. Premature babies are especially likely to gain weight if stimulated
by:a. sound and music.b. light and colors.
c. touch and massage.d. movement and acceleration.
7. At a social gathering, Latin Americans may behave in a manner
that North Americans consider intrusive and overly expressive. This
best illustrates the importance of being sensitive to differing:
a. norms.b. gene complexes.c. gender identities.
d. heritability estimates.
8. Displays of self-effacing humility are most characteristic of those who
value:a. individualism.b. gender-typing.c. collectivism.
d. gender-schemas.
9. Over the last century, Western parents have placed ________ priority on teaching children to respect and
obey parents and ________ priority on teaching them loyalty to their
country.a. decreasing; increasingb. increasing; decreasingc. decreasing; decreasingd. increasing; increasing
10. Adolescent females spend:a. more time alone and more time praying than do adolescent males.
b. less time alone and less time praying than do adolescent males.c. more time alone and less time
praying than do adolescent males.d. less time alone and more time
praying than do adolescent males.
11. Jaquetta was exposed to excess testosterone during prenatal development. As a young girl,
Jaquetta is likely to:a. prefer toy cars over dolls.
b. exhibit superior verbal intelligence.
c. develop a male gender identity.d. demonstrate a lack of gender
schemas.
12. Concepts of masculinity and femininity that influence our
perceptions are called gender:a. types.
b. schemas.c. roles.
d. complexes.
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Evolutionary Psychologists believe that natural selection leads to
differences in our behavior and minds.
Why might this view be controversial?
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Critiquing the Evolutionary Perspective
Evolutionary psychologists take a behavior and work backward to explain it in terms of natural selection.
Evolutionary psychology proposes genetic determinism and undercuts morality in establishing society.
Where genders are unequal, gender preferences are wide, but when they are closely equal, preferences
narrow down.
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Evolutionary Psychologists Reply
Evolutionary psychologists argue that we need to test behaviors that expound evolutionary principles.
Evolutionary psychologists remind us how we have adapted, but do not dictate how we ought to be.
Males and females are more alike than different, and if we study these differences we can establish their
causes.
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The New Frontier: Molecular Genetics
Molecular genetics asks the question, “Do genes influence behavior?”
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Molecular Genetics: Promises and Perils
Molecular geneticists are trying to identify genes that put people at risk for
disorders.
What might be an ethical concern?
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• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7OYCmynrRU
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Biology of Sex: 23rd pair of chromosomes
If the pair is XX, a female is produced. If the pair is XY, a male child is produced.
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Which parent determines the child’s sex?
The Father
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Sexual Differentiation
The male fetus is exposed to testosterone (because of the Y chromosome), which
leads to the development of male genitalia.
If low levels of testosterone are released in the uterus, the result is a female.
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Testosterone causes developmental differences between male and female brains
….That may account for stereotyped differences in male and female behavior since infancy
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Sexual Differentiation
Sexual differentiation is not only biological, but also psychological and social.
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Do Now: How do girls and boys behave differently?
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AIM: Why are human males and females different?
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Gender Roles
Our culture shapes our gender roles — expectations of how men and women are
supposed to behave.
Gender Identity — means how a person views himself or herself in terms of
gender.
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Gender Roles: Theories
1. Gender Schema Theory suggests that we learn a cultural “recipe” of how to be a male or a female
example: “Girls are made of sugar spice and everything nice”
1. Social Learning Theory proposes that we learn gender-linked behaviors by imitating and being rewarded or punished
example: GI joes and Barbies
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Human Sexuality
Gender Differences in Sexuality
Question (summarized) MaleFema
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Casual sex 60% 35%
Sex for affection 25% 48%
Think about sex everyday 54% 19%
Studies have shown that in general, across cultures and species, men
tend to be more promiscuous than females.
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Evolutionary Psychology Hand-out 3-4
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Battle of the Sexes: Mating Preferences
How has natural selection resulted in different mating preferences for males and
females?
However, females select one mature and caring male because of the higher costs involved with pregnancy and nursing.
Natural selection has caused males to increase their genes by mating with
multiple females since males have lower costs involved.
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What qualities do you look for in a partner?
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Mating PreferencesMales: physical
attractiveness and youthFemales: wealth, maturity, ability to care for children
Data based on 37 cultures.
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Who do you think is sexy?
Men answer: Women answer:
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Do Now: Activity 3-4
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AIM: How do biology and culture contribute to human differences?
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Gender Differences in Aggression
Men express themselves and behave in more aggressive ways than do women.
In males, the nature of this aggression is physical.
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Gender Differences and Connectedness
Young and old, women form more connections (friendships) with people than do men. Men emphasize freedom
and self-reliance.
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What do humans have in common?
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Experience and Brain Development
Early postnatal experiences affect brain development.
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Experience and Faculties
Early experiences during development in humans shows remarkable improvements
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Brain Development and Adulthood
Brain development does not stop when we reach adulthood. Throughout our life,
brain tissue continues to grow and change.
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Parental Influence
Parental influence is largely genetic. However, other socializing factors also
play an important role.
Although raised in the same family,
some children are greater risk takers.
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Peer Influence
Children, like adults, attempt to fit into a group by conforming.
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Cultural Influences
Culture is composed of behaviors, ideas, attitudes, values and traditions shared by a
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Variation Across Culture
Cultures differ. Each culture develops norms – rules for accepted and expected
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Culture or Genes?
Cultures change over time. In many Western countries, culture has rapidly changed over the past 40 years or so.
This change cannot be attributed to changes in the human gene pool because
genes evolve very slowly.
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Culture and the Self
Individualist :a culture nurtures an individual’s personal
identityCollectivist: a group identity is favored
When would a collectivist system
benefit groups?
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Culture and the Self
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Culture and Child-Rearing
Individualist cultures (European) raise their children as independent individuals whereas collectivist cultures (Asian) raise
their children as interdependent.
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Culture and Child-Rearing
Westernized Cultures
Asian-African Cultures
Responsible for your self
Responsible to group
Follow your conscience
Priority to obedience
Discover your gifts Be true to family-self
Be true to yourselfBe loyal to your
group
Be independent Be interdependent
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Developmental Similarities Across Groups
Despite diverse cultural backgrounds, humans are more similar than different in
many ways. What are some things humans have in common?
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1. Intense and reactive infants become unusually anxious and
aroused when facing new or strange situations. This best illustrates the
importance of:a. the X chromosome.
b. temperament.c. personal space.d. individualism.
2. Estimates of the heritability of personality traits are most directly associated with the research efforts
of:a. social learning theorists.
b. behavior geneticists.c. evolutionary psychologists.d. gender schema theorists.
3. In emphasizing that heredity's effects on behavior depend on a
person's home environment, psychologists are highlighting the
importance of:a. the double helix.b. gene complexes.
c. collectivism.d. nature-nurture interactions.
4. Bacteria that resist a hospital's antibiotics rapidly multiply as other bacteria die off. This best illustrates:
a. collectivism.b. behavior genetics.
c. heritability.d. natural selection.
5. It has been suggested that men in all cultures tend to marry women younger than themselves because men are genetically predisposed to
seek female features associated with youthful fertility. This suggestion
best illustrates:a. social learning theory.
b. behavior genetics.c. Freudian psychology.
d. an evolutionary perspective.
6. Premature babies are especially likely to gain weight if stimulated
by:a. sound and music.b. light and colors.
c. touch and massage.d. movement and acceleration.
7. At a social gathering, Latin Americans may behave in a manner
that North Americans consider intrusive and overly expressive. This
best illustrates the importance of being sensitive to differing:
a. norms.b. gene complexes.c. gender identities.
d. heritability estimates.
8. Displays of self-effacing humility are most characteristic of those who
value:a. individualism.b. gender-typing.c. collectivism.
d. gender-schemas.
9. Over the last century, Western parents have placed ________ priority on teaching children to respect and
obey parents and ________ priority on teaching them loyalty to their
country.a. decreasing; increasingb. increasing; decreasingc. decreasing; decreasingd. increasing; increasing
10. Adolescent females spend:a. more time alone and more time praying than do adolescent males.
b. less time alone and less time praying than do adolescent males.c. more time alone and less time
praying than do adolescent males.d. less time alone and more time
praying than do adolescent males.
11. Jaquetta was exposed to excess testosterone during prenatal development. As a young girl,
Jaquetta is likely to:a. prefer toy cars over dolls.
b. exhibit superior verbal intelligence.
c. develop a male gender identity.d. demonstrate a lack of gender
schemas.
12. Concepts of masculinity and femininity that influence our
perceptions are called gender:a. types.
b. schemas.c. roles.
d. complexes.
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Reflections on Nature and Nurture