Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Leonard Berkowitz, Natural Disaster, Allosome

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Mike Atkinson

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Q: prof bus reports that h2 for their personality trait of envy is -1. 86. A: buss made an error b/c it cant be negative has to be between 0 and 1. Polygenic genes traits related to action of more than 1 gene or chromosome. Men are more susceptible than women, why: less info on y only 1 x chromosome. Down syndrome: 1 extra chromosome on 21st pair, marked by: Collapse timeline into 365 days - 1day = 9. 6 million years. 11:54 pm on dec 31st -> homo sapiens. Adaptation: changing to meet environmental needs, proximal vs. distal causes. Given that an adult animal now and then, what makes each outburst happen? (proximal) How has the species we observe today acquired the particular behaviours systems during evolution? (distal) Functional approach very powerful: ultimately, everything due to genes. But phenotype does not equal genotype: traits not necessarily due to natural selection. Founder effect chance resulted in these things.