Understanding Genetics, Socioeconomic Status, and Child Development

Dominant-Recessive Inheritance

Dominant-Recessive: RR and Rr are both expressed as dominant, but rr is expressed as recessive — Dimples

Incomplete Dominance

Incomplete Dominance: RR expressed as red, rr expressed as white, and Rr expressed as pink — Sickle cell

X-Linked Inheritance

X-Linked Inheritance: The X chromosome holds much more information than the Y. X-linked inheritance is when an illness/disorder is passed down through the gametes (the mother) — Color blindness

Polygenic Inheritance

Polygenic

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Understanding Motivation: Types, Factors, and Strategies

Understanding Motivation: Key Questions and Answers

1. What is the motivation?

R = It explains the initiation, direction, intensity, and persistence of behavior, especially one that is oriented toward specific goals.

2. What elements did behaviorists use to explain motivation?

R = External stimuli and reinforcement through punishment and rewards or incentives.

3. How do you explain humanistic motivation?

R = It emphasizes the whole person in their needs, freedom, self-esteem, sense of competence, capacity

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Understanding Affective Processes: Emotions, Feelings, and Passions

Affective Processes

Emotion

It is a state of great excitement, manifesting complex behavior patterns, which may or may not be oriented towards a goal. Affective states are derived from the perception of past experiences and are not involved in mental activity. These states are intense, short-lived, and often linked to a shock.

Feeling

Feelings can be pleasant or unpleasant, are less intense than emotions, and are linked to intellectual processes. They are individual and of longer duration.

Passion

Passion

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Brain Decoding, Attention, and Neural Plasticity Insights

Brain Decoding and Machine Learning

The Decoding Approach is a method using machine learning to interpret neural signals, revealing what information the brain processes. Attention increases neural responses to attended objects, enhancing object recognition.

Attention’s Impact on Visual Processing

In V1, attention modulates early visual processing by enhancing neural responses to attended stimuli.

Support Vector Machine (SVM) Explained

The Support Vector Machine (SVM) finds a linear decision boundary

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Effective Communication and Human Relations in the Workplace

Item 7: Communication in the Workplace

1. What Kinds of Communication Exist in a Joint Function of the Net Used?

  • Formal Communication: Results from the formal organizational structure of the company and is subject to certain rules, procedures, and channels.
  • Informal Communication: Not set intentionally, if it is raised around the social relations of the members.

2. Types of Formal Communication Networks

  • Chain: Communication flows vertically from top-down or bottom-up.
  • Star: Represents a supervisor responsible
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Cognitive Development and Intelligence: Piaget’s Theory

Key Concepts in Piaget’s Theory

1. Schema

A schema is a succession of actions that has an organization and is likely to be replicated in similar situations. Schemas change, shifting from action schemes to representative schemes or operations, leading to the configuration of adult intelligence.

2. Adaptation

Intelligence is an adaptation to the environment. Individual schemas develop through the union of two processes:

  • Assimilation: Living things tend to assimilate the environment into their organization
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