PSY 2114 Lecture 2: PSY2114 - LECTURE 2

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 2114
• Professor: Arne Stinchcombe

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Chapter 2: biological foundations: geredity, prenatal development, and birth. In the beginning:: wherever you stand on the nature v nurture issue, you"d likely agree that much of our potential comes from the genes we inherit from our parents! 1: genotype: person"s hereditary makeup, phenotype: physical, behavioural, and psychological features that result from the interaction between one"s genes and the environment! 2 who have one dominant allele for normal blood cells and one recessive sickle cell allele! Heredity, environment, and development: although we"ve learned that certain aspects of heredity can greatly in uence development, it"s important to keep in mind that phenotypes are also under the in uence of the environment! Psy2114 a: adoption studies involve comparing adopted children to, parents, both biological and adoptive, siblings, both biological and adoptive, new techniques involve actually isolating segments of dna, but these techniques are not yet well established!