PSYC 1000 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Oedipus Complex, Bipolar Disorder, Antipsychotic

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Tad Mc Ilwraith

Document Summary

Behaviour geneics: study of the relaive power and limits of geneic environmental inluences on behaviour. Environment: every non-geneic inluence, from prenatal nutriion to the people and things around us. Chromosomes: threadlike structures made of dna molecules that contain the genes. Dna: a complex molecule containing the geneic info that makes up the chromosomes. Genes: the biochemical units of heredity that make up the chromosomes; segments of dna capable of synthesizing a protein. Genome: the complete instrucions for making an organism, consising of all the geneic material in that organism"s chromosomes. Idenical twins: develop from a singly (monozygoic) ferilized egg that splits into 2. Twins have almost the same personality, intelligence, heart rate, brain waves. Fraternal twins: develop from separate (dizygoic) ferilized eggs. Environment shared by a family"s children has virtually no evident impact on their personaliies. Temperament: a person"s characterisic emoional reacivity and intensity. Diicult babies are more irritable, intense, unpredictable.