CPSY 4331 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Behavioural Genetics, Selective Breeding, Ethology
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3: recent perspectives on social and personality development. 2)seem to steer individuals along similar developmental paths: children display a wide variety of preprogrammed behaviors and that each of these responses promotes a particular king of experience that will help the individual to survive and develop normally. Kinship: the extent to which two individuals have genes in common. Twin design: a study in which sets of twins that differ in zygosity (kinship) are compared to determine the heritability of an attribute. Adoption design: a study in which adoptees are compared with their biological relatives and their adoptive relatives to estimate the heritability of an attribute. Causal attributions: conclusions drawn about the underlying causes of our own or another person"s behavior. All human beings are characterized by two strong motives: the need to form a coherent understanding of the world, the need to exert some control over the environment and thus become the captain of one"s own ship .
