PSYC 3110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Heritability, Psychopathy

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3110
• Professor: Pat Barclay

Document Summary

Outline lecture 19 individual differences: preamble: person vs. situation, individual differences at diff. Why aren"t people identical: developmental causes of differences. Facultative responses: causes of heritable differences. Low selection pressure, changing selective pressures, migrations, byproducts. The difference between disorder and something we don"t like . Heritability: proportion of phenotypic differences in the population that can be accounted for by differences in genes. Most people"s incorrect view: if h2=. 50, then 50% of my height is genes and 50% is environment (note: it"s like asking how much of your birthday cake is ingredients vs. cooking)