PSY 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Dna Replication, Twin Study, Genetic Discrimination

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: Rosalinde Klempan

Document Summary

Chapter 4: nature, nurture & human diversity: nature-nurture, genes, evolutionary psychology, behaviour genetics, nature and nurture of gender, nature-nurture. John locke (17th century: saw mind at birth as blank state (tabula rasa, emphasis on nurture. Charles darwin (1859: theory of evolution, emphasis on nature (opposite of locke"s theory, belief that characteristics are passed on genetically from one generation to the next survival of the fittest. Behaviourism movement: watson and skinner, watson: father of behaviourism; believed that psychology should be dealt with as a science, strict, based on things that are observable. Wanted to move away from introspection (in mind, not measurable: skinner: theory of learning operant conditioning. Interactionism: dominant view today, interaction between nature and nurture guides development, some things are easily modifiable, others can rarely be changes (genetics, environment interacts with genes, genes. Molecule containing genetic information in templates for the production of proteins. : proteins are building blocks for human development, molecule shape: double helix.