PSYC 2600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Hypothalamus, Coronary Artery Disease, Heart Rate

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2600
• Professor: Lorena Ruci

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Playing god: modern behavioral geneticists who study personality are typically very careful about addressing implications of work and are sensitive to ideological concerns, knowledge is better than ignorance, class debate : do the benefits outweigh the risks. Instructions: groups on the left half of the room are pro-identification of genes associated with personality and those on the right are anti-identification. In your groups, come up with reasons that one might take the stance you were given- use whatever examples you can think of to make your case: pro (need to learn more about human genome) Animals and plants: can only occur if a desired trait is heritable, e. g. friendliness is heritable. Imagine awkwardness is not heritable at all mz: have precise genetic information. If a trait has very high heritability they will be more like the biological parents: because of this the gold standard of biological genentics and separated identical twins!