Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Karyotype, Eye Color, Heritability

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

Document Summary

Identical twins: analyse their traits, always an environmental trigger, some are affected whereas others are not (one half is affected) Touch for babies allows critical development to occur. Alzheimer patients are unable to recall information quickly and efficiently. We would expect an one year old child to recover from traumatic brain damage quiker than adults because they have more synapses. However, during testing, there is a notable difference in the person"s thinking. Right handed people have language abilities/lateralization in the right side of the brain. Right hemisphere can"t speak but it knows what it sees . Using the left hand, the right hemisphere will be able to project it"s knowledge if in left hemisphere can verbalize about it if in right hemisphere can"t verbalize but can use left hand to demonstrate. Both interact and both help determine how we perceive situations: genes: Humans: 23 pairs; 22 pairs of autosomes + 1 pair of sex chromosomes.