Psych Unit 1 Vocab
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nature-nurture issue
the longstanding controversy over the relative contributions that genes and experience make to the development of psychological traits and behaviors. Today’s science views traits and behaviors as arising from the interaction of nature and nurture
natural selection
the principle that the inherited traits enabling an organism to survive and reproduce in a particular environment will (in competition with other trait variations) most likely be passed on to succeeding generations
evolutionary psychology
the study of the evolution of behavior and the mind, using principles of natural selection
behavior genetics
the study of the relative power and limits of genetic and environmental influences on behavior
mutation
a random error in gene replication that leads to a change.
environment
every nongenetic influence, from prenatal nutrition to our experiences of the people and things around us
heredity
the genetic transfer of characteristics from parents to offspring
genome
the complete instructions for making an organism