PSYC 2740 Lecture 10: PSYCH 2740 LECTURE 10

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2740
• Professor: Stephen Lewis

Document Summary

> ideology (people may push certain political agendas, by pushing a certain kind of gene, serious grati cations such as the legal system) - > eugenics (discouraging others with certain traits that we want and do not want in society) Amount of phenotypic (measure, observe) variance in a group due to genotypic (opennes, individual differences in person"s genes) Environmentality: amount of observed variance due to environment. * it is hard to untangle because there is an interaction between both not one or the other. Examine correlations between: genetic relatedness of family members and personality similarities (parents and you 50%) relative should be less similar because less shared genes. * closer relatives should have more personality similarity. Shared environmental experience (worse limit) temper any ndings we get and put them in context: twin studies. Monozygotic twins (identical 100%, 1 egg splits) * no different than those who are born 2-3 years apart.