Nature/Nurture: Page 6

What words describe someone who is left-brained? What words would describe someone who is right-brained?

Nature:Behavior and personality comes from genetics/DNA

NurtureBehavior and personality comes from environment/surroundings

11/18: Nature vs. Nurture (pg. 6)

Behavioral Genetics:Our behavior comes from both our environment and our genetics.

Genetics come from our genes.

11/18 Nature vs. Nurture (pg. 6)

11/18 Nature vs. Nurture (pg. 6)

Identical Twins Fraternal Twins

Genes are exactly the same

Two sperm; one egg

Genes are no more similar than siblings

Two sperm; two eggs

Separated Twinshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qw3S35wGgT8

WHAT ABOUT CHILDREN THAT ARE ADOPTED?!?

If you were adopted, would you be like your adopted family or your biological family? Why?

11/18: Nature vs. Nurture (pg. 6)

Nature/Nurture: Page 6 (11/19)

What ways are you similar to your family? What ways are you different? Is this because of genes (nature) or experience (nurture)?

Who were the Jim Twins? What was their story?

In the argument of nature/nurture, what does nature mean? What does nurture mean?

Recap: 11/19

Evolutionary PsychologyThe study of the evolution of behavior and the mind, using principles of natural selection

What is ‘natural selection’?

Evolutionary Psychology

Natural SelectionThe principle that those traits that lead to increase production will most likely be passed on to succeeding generations

Natural Selection

NATURAL SELECTION IS HOW WE GET THE GENES WE HAVE!!!

It’s because of our genes that we think a certain way.

Natural Selection/Genes = Nature

What does this have to do with psychology/genes?

How would Natural Selection work here?

How would Natural Selection work here?

How would Natural Selection work here?

Natural Selection and you!

Gender differences in sexuality

Lysol kills 99.99% of all bacteria, which means there is .01 that is not killed.

Will Lysol work better on the next generation of bacteria, or worse? Why?

Exit Ticket: Natural Selection

Nature/Nurture: Page 6 (11/20)

Look over your Nervous System notes (notebook pages 1-5). Identify three things that you know and three things you do not know.

Recap:What is natural selection?

How does evolution still affect our thoughts today?

11/20: Experience/Environment

What was hard about the quiz? What was easy about the quiz? What is something you wished we would have spent more time learning about?

Quiz Exit Ticket:

Nature/Nurture: Page 6 (11/21)

State 1 way that people have had a positive impact in your life and 1 way that people have had a negative impact.

RecapOur genes affect who we are/our behaviors (to an extent)

Natural Selection = Why we have some traits/behaviors

today

11/21: Nature/Nurture (Pg. 6 con)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sno1TpCLj6A

Asch’s Conformity

Think of an example of peer pressure

On a separate sheet of paper, how would you be able to test it?

(Provide hypothesis, ODs, etc.)

Exit Ticket

Nature/Nurture: Page 6 (11/22)

What traditions does your family have? Where do those traditions come from? What other words might be associated with culture?

Quiz results

18.5% got As

7.4% got Bs

22.2% got Cs

11.1% got Ds

40.8% failed

Quiz Results: 3rd Period

36.7% got As

16.7% got Bs

6.7% got Cs

6.7% got Ds

33.2% failed

Quiz Results: 4th Period

56.2% got As

9.4% got Bs

3.1% got Cs

15.6% got Ds

15.7% failed

Quiz Results: 5th Period

1) A neuron's message is sent to another neuron in a process called what:

a) Action Potentialb) Synapsec) Depolarizationd) Synthesis

6) An axon sends messages ______ the cell body and a dendrite sends messages _____ the cell body.

a) away from; towardb) away from; away fromc) toward; away fromd) toward; toward

Action PotentialReceive Information

Send Information

Cultural Influences

Recap:Arguments for Nature: Genetics, Natural Selection

Arguments for Nurture: Peer Pressure, _______

Nature/Nurture (pg. 6 con)

What is it called when your brain removes unused neurons from brain?◦Motto: ____ it or ____ it.

What is it called when our peers/friends influence our

actions/beliefs?

Nature/Nurture: (pg. 6)

CultureThe enduring behaviors, ideas, attitudes, values, and traditions shared by a group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next

Nature/Nurture (pg. 6 con)

NormAn understood rule for accepted and expected behavior; prescribe ‘proper’ behavior

Nature/Nurture (pg. 6 con)

Culturally, how would you describe yourself?

What are some of the ways that you might identify yourself?

Is it possible that at different times in your life you might identify more strongly with one aspect of your cultural identity than another? Explain.

What obstacles do you have because of your culture?

Individualism/Collectivism: Page 7 (11/25)

What behaviors/actions are normal to expect in your culture? What are expectations that everyone has without having those expectations stated?

NormsAn understood rule for accepted and expected behavior; prescribe ‘proper’ behavior

E.g. After a sneeze is “_____ ___”

Individualism/Collectivism (pg 7)

Personal stories:What similarities/differences are there?

Do they say anything about our culture?

Individualism/Collectivism (pg. 7)

Quiz Time!Individualism and Collectivism

If a coworker gets a prize, I wouldn’t feel proud for them.

Question #1

I don’t like sharing little things with my neighbors.

Question #2

What happens to me is my own doing.

Question #3

When I succeed, it is usually because of my

abilities.

Question #4

If someone I knew was in financial difficulty, I

wouldn’t help. Tough luck.

Question #5

Which phrase better applies to your beliefs:

“It’s a dog-eat-dog world out there”

“It takes a village to raise a child”

Question #6

IndividualismGiving priority to one’s own goals over group goals and defining one’s identity in terms of personal attributes rather than group identifications

Individualism/Collectivism (pg. 7)

Collectivism:Giving priority to the goals of one’s group (often one’s extended family or work group) and defining one’s identity accordingly

Individualism/Collectivism (pg 7)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZzWCXgDmkY

Individualism or Collectivism?

How might your community look different if you lived in a collectivist culture?

Exit Ticket: 11/25 (pg. 7)

Individualism/Collectivism: Page 7 con (11/26)

If I were to raise a child in an Individualist culture, what would be some things I would emphasize? What about in a Collectivist culture?

Gender Roles: Page 8 (12/2)

How was your thanksgiving? Looking back, how did the

men contribute to the thanksgiving dinner? How did

the women contribute?

Recap: What is this?Giving priority to one’s own goals over group goals and defining one’s identity in terms of personal attributes rather than group identifications

Gender Roles (Pg. 8)

Recap: What is this?Giving priority to the goals of one’s group (often one’s extended family or work group) and defining one’s identity accordingly

Gender Roles (Pg. 8)

Recap: Which culture am I?Independent selfChanges jobs/relationship often

Life task: Discover and express one’s uniqueness

Gender Roles (Pg. 8)

Recap: Which culture am I?Interdependent selfChanges jobs/relationships scarcely; has roots in tradition

Life task: Maintain connections, fit in, perform role, bring honor/tradition

Gender Roles (Pg. 8)

Recap: Nature/NurtureHow do genetics/natural selection play a role in nature?

How does one’s culture play a role in nurture?

Gender Roles (Pg. 8)

A: Girl ActressB: Former President

C: President’s daughter

D: Girl from a wealthy family

Guess this person!

Gender Roles: Aggression (Pg. 8)

Men Women

Gender Roles: Aggression (Pg. 8)

Men Women

Gender Roles (Pg. 8)