PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Falsifiability, Genomics, Opportunity Cost

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jordan Poppenk

Document Summary

N. c wyeth painted thousands of illustrations, and had various children: painting ran through the family. The recipe to make a human: 23 pairs of chromosomes, parent chromosomes have a locus within the dna to find a gene. Gene version are celled alleles, the result is a trait (ie. gene version 1 for green eyes, gene version 2 for blue eyes) We have about 25000 genes, and about 99. 5% of our genetic make-up is shared w other humans. Pattern of distribution: 50% (parents) -25% (siblings) -12. 5% (overlap w others like cousins) Heterozygous arrangement: dominant allele & recessive allele. Homozygous arrangement: two copies of the same allele. Could it be more so influenced by environment: for the wyeths, could have art supplies around the house, family social network, home schooling, role model parents, sibling rivalry (wanting to be better than them) Nature vs. nurture debate: genetics vs. how they grow up, nativism vs. empiricism.