PSY 1102 Lecture : PSY1102

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: Najwa Haddad

Document Summary

They were interested in finding out which genes were responsible for a trait, characteristic, or disease. By comparing families that have the disease, and those families members that don t have the genes, they can find out which genes are responsible for a certain disease, trait, etc. If we can find which genes are responsible, we can eliminate certain diseases. The nurture component: prenatal development, experience & brain development, prenatal development. nurture begins at the moment of conception to the moment of birth. the baby in the womb is very well protected, but not 100: there are many viruses, bacteria, toxins, drugs, that can cross the placenta barrier and can influence the development of the baby. even though twins are exposed in the same womb, their prenatal development may be different (different environment). Identical twins who share the same placenta are more identical to each other than twins who share different placenta.