Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Parasympathetic Nervous System, Sympathetic Nervous System, Somatic Nervous System

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Lynn Jackson

Document Summary

Capgras delusion phenomenon that causes a person to think that people in their life are imposters or replicas of the people they used to know (parents, friends, pets, self, etc. ) Genetics used to describe how characteristics are passed along to offspring through inheritance: also refers to the process involved in turning genes on and off . Biology and environment mutually influence each other. Within each cell are chromosomes structures within the cell body that are made up of genes: each human as 23 pairs of chromosomes; half of each pair coming from each parent. Gene the unit of heredity that determines a particular characteristic in an organism. Gregor mendel developed selective breeding which strictly controlled which plants breed with other plans: deduced that plants contained separate units, now known as genes. Dominant gene a gene that is expressed in the offspring wherever it is present.