Psychology 2550A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Hatmaking, Jeffrey Alan Gray, Orienting Response

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2550A/B
• Professor: David Vollick

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Shared environment: shared environmental differences may be less than expected even in siblings that live together, parental in uence and expectations, age differences, reactions by others. Non-shared environment: non-shared environmental variance includes features of the environment that children raised in the same home experience differently, experiences outside the home, school/work/okay, relationships with signi cant others, life events. The case of schizophrenia: twin studies helped show schizophrenia is genetically in uenced, there is a genetic predisposition for schizophrenia, it is not simply a genetic disease because concordance between identical twins is not perfect, environment personality culture. Mediated effects of biology: mad as a hatter brain damage from mercury in hat making factories, lead poisoning and cognitive behavioral de cits in children, manganese miners and ghting behavior. Chapter 5 - biological aspects of personality: pick"s disease, tropisms- the processes by which some individuals grow toward more ful lling and health-promoting spaces while other individuals remain subject to darker, health-threatening environments.