Environmental Influences & Genetics
The enduring behaviors, ideas, attitudes, values and traditions shared by a group of people and transmitted form one generation to the next.
What is culture?
The dominant hemisphere of the brain that transcribes language.
What is the left hemisphere?
This lobe is located at the back of the head; includes areas that deal exclusively with vision.
What is the occipital lobe?
Damage to this region of the frontal lobe can affect your ability to speak, and may limit your ability to read, despite excellent vision.
What is the Broca's Area?
The complete set of instructions for making an organism, consisting of all the genetic material in that organism's chromosomes.
What is the genome?
Every human has how many chromosomes not pairs?
What is 46?
The area at the front of the parietal lobes that registers and processes body touch and movement sensations. Located behind the motor cortex.
What is the sensory cortex?
This lobe receives input for touch and other sensory information.
What is the parietal lobe?
Any impairment of language, caused by damage to certain regions of the brain.
What is aphasia?
Twins who develop from separate fertilized eggs; genetically no closer than brothers and sisters.
What are fraternal twins?
You may have brown eyes a particular trait, that trait is expressed as a
What is a dominant gene?
This is the brain's capacity for modification and ability to reorganize following damage?
What is plasticity?
This lobe is in charge of speaking, making plans and judgement.
What is the frontal lobe?
Damage to this region can limit your ability to understand what is said to you, and may appear also as spoken gibberish.
What is Wernicke's Area?
This is the likelihood of a trait's appearance in any given population.
What is heritability?
Due to twin studies, parents have an effect on what influences.
What are attitudes, manners, faith & politics?
This helped with patients who had epilepsy, were surgery cut the corpus callosum.
What is the split brain experiment?
Lobe that receives information primarily from the ear on the opposite side of the head.
What is the temporal lobe?
A split brain is created when this nerve connecting the left and right hemispheres is severed.
What is the corpus callosum?
The study of evolution of behavior and the mind, using principles of natural selection.
What is evolutionary psychology.
Babies born with Down syndrome are born with an extra chromosome on.
What is the 21st pair?
When the left and right hemispheres communicate with the opposite motors function.
What are contralateral control?
These are areas of the cerebral cortex not involved in motor or sensory functions; integrate information and aid memory.
What are association areas?
Damage to this region doesn't affect speech or cognition, but may prevent you from reading this aloud.
What is the angular gyrus?
A random error in gene replication that leads to a change.
What is mutation?