PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Twin, Twin Study, Attention Seeking

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Oliver Michael Hardt

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We are really good at being attracted to certain things everything out of the ordinary (ex: sounds, when something moves) Understanding how they can be changed understand what is nature and nurture. Some aspects of our behavior are innate but some can be changed by our experience. Interactionism view route from genes to behavior is likely to be more torturous than that and involve multitude of genes and their interaction, and interplay between genes and environment. Proximate cause: what is mechanism behind that, physiology at this moment of organism that explain behavior, how. Ultimate causes: evolutionary, why someone does something, why. Genes do not cause behavior, they influence the development of the body, which allows certain behaviors to emerge. I(cid:374)tera(cid:272)tio(cid:374)is(cid:373): piaget"s theor(cid:455) we love to manipulate objects, all babies do that. Baby has set of behaviors already to interact with object (ex: toy).