PSY 12000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Quantitative Trait Locus, Standard Deviation, Frequency Distribution

• School: Purdue University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 12000
• Professor: George Hollich

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Topics: nature vs nurture, mechanisms of heritability, population variability, gene-environment relations, heredity is not destiny, types of genetic studies. Learning perspective: our actions are determined by our environment; emphasis on rewards punishments and teaching. John watson and baby ai: from hopkins, fear is learned, believed you can teach fear, you are not born naturally afraid of things, 9-month albert b, not afraid of rat, loud noise + rat, fear sort of. Biological perspective: our behavior is also determined by biological forces, examples: rousseau, gesell"s maturational theory, modern genetics, arnold gessell (1880-1961) (mr. Jean jacques rousseau (1712-1778: gessell"s maturational theory says its pre-determined. Genetics: 23 pairs of chromosomes, 23 from male, 23 from female, 46 total chromosomes, gender, x and y chromosome pairing, xx = female, xy = male. Chromosomes: piles of genetic material, have genes (allele) smallest unit of heredity, made of dna = deoxyribonucleic acid.