PSY 1102 Lecture 1: Chapter 4

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: Gary Capstick

Document Summary

Our shared biological heritage ensures that we are all very much alike, there is, though, a variability in the population. We all possess the same characteristics, capacities, abilities, and conscious life, but we differ in terms of the extent of these characteristics. Unity amongst us in terms of being human. We don"t have the same amount / kind of these similarities. There are differences in things such as height - physical and soccer ability within the population - mental, emotional, behaviour. Everyone varies but there is a lot that is the same. Freud - psychoanalysis - personality has to do with upbringing. Behaviourism - personality, general patterns moulded, shaped by consequences of behaviours. Cognitive - humans aren"t just a slave to their environment, they think, rationalize, decide how to act. The environment does matter but biology also matters. Behaviour genetics: nature vs. nurture: behaviour genetics interested in our differences. We do vary in terms of our characteristics.