PSY 1102 Study Guide - Final Guide: Acetyl Group, Epigenome, Prenatal Development

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: Najwa Haddad

Document Summary

Psy 1102 chapter 4: nature, nurture and human diversity. Ii-nature component: both are equally important to who we are, and they are constantly interacting with. Nurture = everything else/the environment each other. Takes one gene to produce a tray. Alphabet of life-sequence determines what a gene does or doesn"t do. If you change a letter in the sequence, you change what the gene does. We are 99. 99% genetically similar to every other human being. 95% of 0. 01 represents differences within each race : nature genetics, 2004. 1. what is ep: newest perspective, theory of evolution: darwin. Focus: human behaviour that is universal: characteristics, traits, etc. Main goal of being is to survive and transit dna: reparation of the 0. 01% Survival of the ttest that we display. Any behaviour that helped our ancestors survive is an emotion/behaviour. Adaptation: if the environment changes, the organism must change. Surveys-men tend to want sex more than women: apply ep - sexuality.