PSYCH 3JJ3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Prefrontal Cortex, Mirror Neuron, Heredity
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It is important for understanding actions and intentions: this allows us to imitate behavior, as children we learn by watching, helps develop theory of mind and empathy. Genetic transmission: this is important for social development, we want to know how genes are being transmitted, the genes are activated, the gene has a specific protein that codes for something. It gets activated to produce the protein which serve different functions and they work together to create and organism. It serves as a template for building a protein molecule. Adoption studies: comparing adopted children to biological and adoptive parents, we want to see how the environment contributes to development. Twin studies: compare similarities between identical and fraternal twins, we want to see how much genes are influencing the behavior, monozygotic share 100% of their genes and dizygotic twins share 50%. If mono show more resemblance then you can assume that the trait is largely due to genes.
