Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Fixed Action Pattern, Netflix

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

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Sample question: h^2 for personality trait of envy is -1. 86. H^2 value can only be between 0-1. Heritability (amount of variance due to genes) h^2 = rmza (identical twins raised apart) based on bouchard, this number is 0. 72. Collapse timeline into 365 days, 1 day = 9. 6 million years. Proximal: immediate mechanisms (psychology mainly looks at causes from this end of the spectrum) Given that an adult animal fights now and then, what makes each outburst happen? a. How has the animal as it grew up developed this behaviour? a. How has the species we observe today acquired the particular behaviour systems during evolution? a. Traits are not necessarily due to natural selection. Founder effect - changes in allele frequency happen by chance, group of people move someplace and are isolated. Only 16 families made it to sa, and they carried a higher allele frequency for huntington"s. Selection for a bigger thumb, but this correlates with larger hand.