PSY 2105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Sandra Scarr, Informed Consent, Behavioural Genetics

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 2105
• Professor: Alastair Younger

Document Summary

2 major designs to study development: longitudinal, cross sectional. Cross sectional: different participants at each age level, advantages, shorter and less money, disadvantages, cannot infer stability or change, cohort effects, cohort: group of people who come from same time-period with shared experiences. Combining them: cross sequential takes best factors and try to minimize disadvantages. Other research methods: cross cultural research: compare between different cultures, comparative research: will look at similar phenomena in animals, ethologists. Informed consent (parents and children: non-harmful procedures, parental consent, additional consent. Hereditary: sandra scarr, (cid:862)behavioural geneti(cid:272)s(cid:863): are there patterns of (cid:271)ehaviour that have an inherited basis to them, development is the process where the genotype is expressed as a phenotype. Early notions of heredity: traits inherited from fathers, 17th century: anton von leeuwenhoek: discovered the microscope, started looking at everything under the microscope, fascinated by sperm, preformationism: preformed people in sperm (known as homunculus)