PSYCH 3AB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Amygdala, Twin Study, Serotonin Transporter

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 3AB3
• Professor: Louis A Schmidt

Document Summary

Ethnic and cultural differences in parenting: ethnic minority parents stress on obedience, harsh discipline, lack of explanations, negative effects not as pronounced, traditional parenting: strict authority plus warmth, positive effects of authoritative parenting hold up. Attachment in adolescents: bowlby: importance of parent-infant attachment, how attachment develops formation and early development of attachment, stages. Infant"s working models have lasting effects: secure and insecure relationships in adolescence, expectations and self0fulfilling prophecies, figure 4. 4 working models and relationship styles. Parent-teen conflict: stereotype of adolescent storm and stress, broad agreement about big issues, values, religion, mutual affection and respect, curfews, clothing, neatness lead to conflict, conflicts more frequent in early adolescence, conflicts may seem more profound to parents. Families and behavioural genetics: twin studies and adoption studies, shared and non-shared environmental influences, molecular genetic studies, scarr: varieties of genotype-environment correlations (gecs, looking at the correlations between genotype and environment (familial)