PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Behavioural Genetics, Heredity
17 May 2018
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PSYC 1010 Lecture 13 Notes
Introduction
Psyhology’s Sufields
• The different perspectives described on the complement one another.
• Consider, for example, how they shed light on anger
• Someone working from a neuroscience perspective might study brain circuits that cause
us to e red i the fae ad hot uder the ollar.
• Someone working from the evolutionary perspective might analyze how anger
failitated the survival of our aestors’ genes.
• Someone working from the behavior genetics perspective might study how heredity and
experience influence our individual differences in temperament.
• Someone working from the psychodynamic perspective might view an outburst as an
outlet for unconscious hostility.
• Someone working from the behavioral perspective might attempt to determine which
external stimuli trigger angry responses or aggressive acts.
• Someone working from the cognitive perspective might study how our interpretation of
a situation affects our anger and how our anger affects our thinking.
• Someone working from the social- cultural perspective might explore how expressions
of anger vary across cultural contexts.
• The point to remember: Like two-dimensional views of a three-dimensional object, each
of psyhology’s perspetives is helpful.
• But each by itself fails to reveal the whole picture.
• What are psyhology’s ai sufields?
• Picturing a chemist at work, you may envision a white- coated scientist surrounded by
test tubes and high- tech equipment.
• Picture a psychologist at work and you would be right to envision
• A white- oated sietist proig a rat’s rai.
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