PSYC 1100 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Tabula Rasa, Messenger Rna, Schizophrenia

• School: UConn
• Department: Psychological Sciences
• Course: PSYC 1100
• Professor: David Miller

Document Summary

Nature vs. nurture philosophical debate about the relative importance of inborn characteristics vs. experience. Nativists (e. g. kant): believed that innate or inborn mechanisms were the basis of knowledge and other important characteristics. Empiricists and associationists (e. g. locke, hume) believed that sensory experience was the basis of knowledge and other important characteristics. Learn by association, e. g. , law of temporal contiguity. False dichotomy, because for most psychological characteristics both genetic and environmental factors contribute. Genetic code information for protein synthesis (amino acid sequence) contained in the sequence of nitrogen-containing bases in the structure of dna. Genotype- genetic makeup of an organism, encoded in dna. The genotypes associated with various behavioral phenotypes can either be located on a single gene locus, or multiple gene loci (i. e. , polygenetic). The vast majority of behavioral traits appear to be influenced by polygenetic encoding. Example: for most psychological disorders, it appears that multiple genes contribute a little bit to the likelihood having a disorder.