Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Sickle-Cell Disease, Zygosity, Heritability

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

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Visual field brain has contralateral control of the visual field not the eye itself because both eyes can see both visual fields. Split brain tests only work for right handed people. The experimenter knows the lateralization of their brain. Right hemisphere cannot express language (cannot speak ) Verbal tasks can only be performed by left hemisphere. Nature : something we"re born with vs nurture : something we learn. Karyotype : genetic blueprint, what genetic material each individual has. In humans, 22 autosomes pairs, 1 sex pair. Rna codes for protein molecules (sequences of amino acids) Protein molecules influence how we develop, how we grow, ie, who we are. The influence of genes is through protein synthesis, there are no genes for a particular attribute. Reaction time, many people judge intelligence by reaction time. Maybe proteins made myelinate neurons and create faster neuron transmission, therefore higher reaction time. Environment can influence protein synthesis as well.