PSYC 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Tabula Rasa, Messenger Rna, False Dilemma

• School: UConn
• Department: Psychological Sciences
• Course: PSYC 1100
• Professor: John Salamone

Document Summary

Learn by association, e. g. law of temporal contiguity (close in time: when two events happen closely relate in time together, humans are likely to link them together, modern version of nature vs nurture argument: genetics vs. It is a product of genetic/environment interactions during every stage of development. Polymorphisms (poly means many while mor mean structure) - many structures: twin studies: one way of studying genetic factors in psychological functions. 15-40% depend upon the study: frequency of schizophrenia in general population. 1: schizophrenia is influenced by genetics (concordance is much more than 1%), but not totally (concordance is much less than 100%, correlational studies, correlation: degree and direction of linear relation between variables. Expressed by a coefficient r which can vary between -1 and +1. It capture how closely the relation between two variables follows a straight line and the sign of correlation is related to the slope of the line.