PSYCH211 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Categorical Perception, Retina, Lev Vygotsky

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH211
• Professor: Ori Friedman

Document Summary

There are 2 premises to behavioural genetics research: when people have similar genes they should have similar traits. Phenotypes are also partially impacted by the environment: when people have a similar environment they should have similar traits. Family study: looks at the correlation between individual and close relatives and individual and more distant relatives ( vary in genetic relatedness) A family study would look which one has a stronger correlation when compared to an individual and would show the importance of genetics if the the correlation is stronger between the siblings. We share 50 percent of genes with siblings so we could think that. Siblings raised in the same household will have the same environment and genetics. Adopted person and adopted family (e. g. , parents, siblings) Adopted person and biological family (e. g. , parent and siblings) This will help determine if the trait is a matter of environment or genes. If monozygotic twins show a stronger correlation, implies importance of genetics.