1.1 AP Psych

Nature-nurture issue

The debate over how much behavior and traits are influenced by genetics (nature) versus experiences and environment (nurture)

Evolutionary Perspective

A psychological perspective that explains behavior and mental processes in terms of how they may have helped our ancestors survive and reproduce

Natural Selection

The process by which organisms with advantageous inherited traits are more likely to survive and reproduce passing those traits to future generations

Environment

All external influences and experiences that affect a person's development and behavior including family culture and education

Heredity

The passing of genetic traits from parents to offspring through genes

Eugenics

A discredited and unethical movement aimed at improving the human population's supposed genetic quality through selective reproduction often used to justify discrimination and forced sterilizatio