Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Xyy Syndrome, Allosome, Color Blindness

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

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Polygenetic effects: traits related to action of more than 1 gene or chromosome. Men are more susceptible than women (because y is shorter less information): baldness, red-green colour blindness, hemophilia. Can get xxx, x nothing, xxy males xyy: people have xyy, they tends to be caught more for faulty crimes. Due to accumulation of amyloid protein (also in alzheimer"s patients) Note: can alleviate symptoms with intense cognitive stimulation. Incidence related to mother"s (and dad"s) age: odds of 1 and 1000 or 700000 (recently) Risk about 1 in 1000, past 40: 6 in 1000 (for example, first child after 35) Collapse timeline into 365 one day = 9. 6 million years. Driving force for him is from adam smith (economics) Changing to meet environmental needs functionalist approach: Proximal vs distal causes: immediate mechanism (proximal) vs evolutionary processes (distal causes) Psychology: emotioanl reaction into processing (from distal to proximal) Proximal (bc i am talking about now)