PSYC 100 Chapter Notes -Job Performance, Meritocracy, Fluid And Crystallized Intelligence

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Prof.

Document Summary

Nativism-philosophical view that we are born with knowledge already present. Empiricism-philosophical view that we obtain all knowledge through our senses. Nature vs. nurture-> false dichotomy-> for example, the diathesis-stress model of mental illness show that genes interact with the environment at every level. Behaviour genetics-study of how genes and environment influences on behaviour. Founded by john scoot, john fuller, and william r. thompson-> studied personality traits in dog breeds. Methods applied to humans typically involve comparing people of different levels of relatedness, such as parents and their offspring, siblings and unrelated individuals, and measuring resemblances for a specific trait of interest. For example, an individual born to parents who have alcohol problems might inherit the genes that create a sensitivity for alcohol, but they must decide to drink. Studied adopted children to estimate genetic contributions to behaviour-> biological parents (nature) and adopted parent (nurture)-> heritability increases with age, whereas the opposite is true for depression and anxiety.