[PSY1102] - Final Exam Guide - Ultimate 24 pages long Study Guide!

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: Gary Capstick

Document Summary

Focuses on the roll natural selection, and evolution plays in what makes us, us: experience: culture, parents, and peers how our environments determine who we are, behaviour genetics. Investigates the relative effects of heredity (nature) & environment (nurture) on behaviour (thoughts, feelings, attitudes, emotions + outwards actions: environment, any non-genetic circumstance, or condition that concerns a person and influences our thoughts, feelings, and behaviours, ex. : nutrition, education, parents, peers, culture, social experiences: heredity, genetic transfer of traits from parent to offspring. Mechanism of heredity: chromosomes thread-like struct. If identical twins show greater agreement for a characteristic than fraternal twins, heredity plays a significant role. If identical twins show no more agreement for a characteristic than fraternal twins, heredity plays a lesser role. Ide(cid:374)ti(cid:272)al t(cid:449)i(cid:374)s are (cid:373)ore likel(cid:455) to de(cid:448)elop ge(cid:374)eti(cid:272) disorders like alzhei(cid:373)er"s tha(cid:374) fraternal twins. Identical twins are more alike in terms of personality, intelligence, and divorce rates.