PSYC 190 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Education In India, Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Genetic Variability
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Parents who overvalue their children narcissists. My child is more special than other children . But they authors kept saying that parents overvaluing children made. Studies later shown that narcissistic parents overvalue children and narcissist children lead to narcissists children. Many studies found that coffee-drinking was related to heart problems. But they included smokers who on average drank significantly more coffee than nonsmokers and have greater risk of heart disease. A gene pdss2 is associated with lower consumption of coffee bc it reduces ability of the body to break down caffeine. Perhaps presence or absence of gene is predictive of heart disease. Result: it"s dangerous to make cause-and-effect claims from correlational data. Need to conduct a randomized controlled trial (rct) Create groups assigning subjects randomly to one group. Control the exposure of subjects to a treatment - amount of. We can"t randomly assign parenting practice but can study adoption. Adoption likely results in positive social and developmental outcomes.
