Child Psychology


What environmental areas affect development?


FamilySocioeconomic statusAffluencePovertyNeighborhoodsSchoolsCulture


What is niche-picking?


The tendancy to actively choose environments that complement our heredity.


Epigenisis is....


development resulting from ongoing, bidirectional exchanges between heredity and all levels of the environment.


Heterozygous


individuals with one dominant and one recessive gene


Homozygous


Have two identical alleles


What is coparenting?


mutally supporting each other's parenting behaviors


When many genes affect a characterisitic it is?


polygenic inheritance


Define mutation


Sudden but permanent change in a segment of DNA


Is cystic fybrosis related to recessive or dominant inheritance?


recessive


Directly observable characteristics are.....


phenotypes