Child Psychology

• Family
• Socioeconomic status
• Affluence
• Poverty
• Neighborhoods
• Schools
• Culture

The tendancy to actively choose environments that complement our heredity.

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

individuals with one dominant and one recessive gene

Have two identical alleles

mutally supporting each other's parenting behaviors

polygenic inheritance

Sudden but permanent change in a segment of DNA

recessive

phenotypes