Sandy Barsoum's List: Edu 541: Human Development and Learning Theories

• that  parents appear to have relatively little effect on how children turn out,  once genetic influences are accounted for. "
• genes have a much greater influence on our personalities  than previously thought, and parenting much less
• Behavioral geneticists
• propose that  heredity reveals itself through complex interactions with the  environment.
• each phrase spoken by heredity summoning an  answer from the environment
• Even as genes are calling forth particular reactions, they're also  reaching out for particular kinds of experience.

  • Geses are responsible for shaping the nervouse system of a person and therfore they control what kind of experience this person seeks

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• Does the abuse cause biological changes that may increase the risk for these problems?
• The researchers found that the genes that code for these receptors were about 40 percent less active in people who had been abused as children than in those who had not. The scientists found the same striking differences between the abused group and the brains of 12 control subjects, who had not been abused and who died from causes other than suicide.

• fine-tuning of a child’s emerging talents occurs between three and six years of age. At approximately age five or six, the brain has reached 90-95% of its adult volume and is four times its birth size. Ages three to six are the years during which extensive internal re-wiring takes place in the frontal lobes, the cortical regions involved in organizing actions, planning activities and focusing attention.