PSYC 2600 Lecture Notes - Monoamine Oxidase A, Impulsivity, Dopamine Receptor D4
14 Oct 2012
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Human genetics: 20, 000 genes, 46 chromosomes (23 pairs, each pair from mom, pair from dad) Politics and behavioural genetics: nature-nurture (discounts the role of parenting, we as parents may say they are not going to try because there is a gene saying the child is not smart). Political agendas and ulterior motives (claim non-guilty for crimes because of their genes, they may take no responsibility for themselves. We may say there is no helping them and take away the guilt). Eugenics (creating superhumans, elimination of diversity, manipulate which traits people have, using 2 positive genes to have superhumans. 2 smart people have kids and make really smart people) Euthanasia and genocide (nazi germany, when children were born with abnormalities they would kill them to save them", they thought they were trying to purify the genetic code with genocide. Sterilization would happen if they found children were intellectually inferior they would make it so they couldn"t have kids,
