PSYCH211 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Tabula Rasa, Twin Study, Twin
20 Mar 2013
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Summary of current thoughts about human nature; also about human issues. Assumes that biology is irrelevant to human nature; its influences on culture is minor. There are not many learning mechanisms but instead, few and general ones. Both nature and nurture should be considered in the development of a person. Development is not caused by a single entity. Fallacy of exclusive determinism: the intuition that an event has single, identifiable cause. Tell you how much of a trait in a given individual was caused by genes and environment. Tell you how malleable that trait is or how that trait is unchangeably determined. How much of the differences among people are statistically accounted for by differences in genes. It is the estimate of the proportion of the measured variance in a trait among individuals in a given population that is attributive to genetic differences among these individuals.
