Identify and describe several concepts or facts from the last two weeks, and then discuss how each is visible in your personal, family, work life, etc.This should help youconnect the material to your world. Your journal entries should be 1000-1500 words.

Describe the various types of psychoactive drugs and the processes of dependence and addiction.

1. Explain the role played by genes in predicting individual differences.
2. Discuss the various environmental influences on behavior and the effects these can have.
3. Describe the processes of physical, cognitive and social development in infants and children.
4. Discuss the various research strategies used by psychologists in the scientific study of behavior.
5. Describe how the nervous and endocrine systems play a role in human behavior.
6. Describe the work of the cerebral cortex and the parts played by the right and left hemispheres of the brain.
7. Explain the role and function of sleep and dreams.