PSY 2114 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Long-Term Memory, Schizophrenia, Information Processing Theory

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 2114
• Professor: Wendy Lee

Document Summary

Psychological: internal perceptual, cognitive, emotional, and personality factors. Sociocultural: interpersonal, societal, cultural, and ethic factors. Life-cycle: differences in how the same event effects people of different ages. Pku (phenylketonuria): de ciency in enzyme to metabolize phenylalanine (mutated gene) can lead to mental retardation, brain damage, seizure, death > caused by nature: but changing diet without phenylalanine can control the condition > nurture. Height seems highly under genetic control > nature: but can be in uenced by environment (ex. malnutrition) > nurture. Schizophrenia has a higher probability of developing if relative is diagnosed > nature: 50% chance of developing it if identical twin has it > not 100% chance, can be in uence by nurture. Active gene-environment association: your genes of biological predispositions encourage you to seek out certain experiences or environments: see the active child, ex. You"re artistic > will seek out art classes, etc. reinforcing your biological predispositions.