PSYC 190 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Randomized Controlled Trial, Narcissistic Parent, Behavioural Genetics
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Studies: parenting studies are mostly correlational, praising children can cause narcissism, causal claim that a causes b, children internalize superiority spoken by parents over other children environmental, narcissistic parents can cause narcissistic children genetic. If adoptees behave like biological parents nature: alcoholism in adoption, 900 boys in swedish research, adoptees would become alcoholic if biological parents were alcoholic, adoptive parents had no effect on alcoholism. Genetics tutorial: secure (60-70%) avoids stranger if alone, not with mother. Section 1. 11 behavior genetics conclusions: monozygotic (60%) twins have higher concordance than dizygotic (10-20%, shame household = constant environment, check genetics, doesn"t factor shared and unshared experiences only shows parental genetic. Psyc 190: 4 effect, not parental behavior effect: look at concordance rates when twins are raised apart, decreased concordance = parents have an effect, twins raised together. If environment didn"t matter, concordance would be 100: 100 concordance = environmental. If parents didn"t matter, dizygotic concordance would be half of monozygotic.
