PSY 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Molecular Genetics, Mental Representation, Synapsis

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: Najwa Haddad

Document Summary

Lecture 3 january 18th 2016: molecular geneics. Researchers searching and idenifying genes that are linked or associated with disease, traits and/or characterisics. They study dna and do a linkage analysis. We want to idenify all the factors that efect psychological processes. If genes are involved, we want to know which gene, what it"s doing and how it became to be. Aborion: when ultrasound technology became a thing, millions of baby girls were aborted in many areas of the world because the country wanted a higher populaion of males. Employer discriminaion: if a person has a health problem because of genes passed down through their family and are unable to be hired in a speciic place due to the employer"s learning of said health problem. According to the book, nurture begins at concepion (this is false) If we ask doctors what efects our health, they will tell us : our dna and our behavior as adults efects our health.