PSY E111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Adrenal Gland, Pituitary Gland, Twin Study
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Adoption studies have confirmed what twin studies have shown about genetic influences on personality. Nature: the influence of our inherited characteristics on our personality, physical growth, intellectual growth, and social interactions. Cystic fibrosis carried by recessive genes and inherited when a child inherits two recessive genes; affects lungs, digestive function, originates in one specific gene. Somatic nervous system division of peripheral nervous system that carries info from the senses to the central nervous system and from the cns to the voluntary muscles of the body. Sympathetic division acts as an accelerator for the organs more active during stress. Parasympathetic division responsible for functions that do not require immediate action. Autonomic nervous system different division of the peripheral nervous system. Gonads secrete hormones that regulate sexual behaviour and reproduction. Adrenal glands top of kidneys; releasing adrenaline and cortisol during states of emotional arousal; produce a group of hormones = corticoids; secrete hormones.
