PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Heredity, Gtf2I, Aggression
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Psychological vulnerability due to experience (see the world as. Most of the disorder isn t straight from the genes. Behavior is typically polygenetic (multiple genes interact over another) Reaction range: degree of potential outcome determined by heredity (lowerst level of intelligence to the highest level of intelligence) Example: alcoholism, animal aggression (environment needs to activate the gene) Reciprocal gene-environment model out depressing situations, bad relationships etc, which further enforces the depresssion) Environmental changes in parent generation can get passed down. Example: depression, (ppl with depression and more likely to seek. Serotonin transporter gene (5-htt); reuptake process of serotonin (monkey experiment: anxious monkey, meet calm mom, grow up calm, and become a calm mom) > influence of parenting on aggressive behavior (aggressive behavior depended on parental experience for the monkeys carrying aggressive behavior) Follow up study of individuals with l/l, l/s, s/s. S/s had more depression as the amount of stressful life events increased.
