PSY 101 Lecture Notes - Heritability, Type A And Type B Personality Theory, Twin
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People differ in many aspects of psychological functioning. For example, some people possess a type a personality and are aggressive, ambitious, and controlling, whereas others possess a type b personality and are passive and easy going. Yet, we are also similar in some aspects of our psychological functioning. For example, whether we live in the arctic or tropics, we divide the color spectrum into similar colors. The study of effects of environmental and genetic factors, and their interplay, on differences in psychological traits. Every cell in your body contains chromosomes 23 from mama and. Each chromosome is made up of two dna strands connected in a double helix. Genes are small segments of dna molecules. Identical twins develop from a single fertilized egg and are genetically identical, whereas fraternal twins develop from separate fertilized eggs and share half their genes, just like siblings.
