PSYC 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Twin, Empiricism, Psych

• School: UConn
• Department: Psychological Sciences
• Course: PSYC 1100
• Professor: Sumarga Suanda

Document Summary

At their cores are people good or evil. Problem of nature or nurture: what makes us the way we are. Nativism, much of our knowledge is inborn vs. empiricism, knowledge acquired through experience. Modern day people argue whether it"s right or wrong. Behavioral genetics - a field of scientific method that uses genetic methods to investigate individual differences in behavior. Exploit the pattern how related people are genetically, and connect those patterns to how similar people are in behavior. As you increase the genetic relatedness you see how more similar they are. Similarity increase from unrelated subjects, fraternal twins, identical twins. Developmental psych- the scientific study of how and why human beings changed over the lifespan. Comparative psych- scientific study of the behavior and mental processes if non-human animals, especially as they relate to humans or as they relate to other animals. An early attempt to understand the link between the brain and the mental processes: the.