PSYC 218 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Differential Psychology, Twin, Heredity
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This branch of science is often confused with personality psychology. Differential psychology, which analyzes variations in people"s behavior, has evolved a lot since. Galton founded his anthropometric laboratory, a milestone in the study of individual differences. Today this branch of psychology focuses its efforts on determining the relative influences of heredity and environment on behavior. In the mid-19th century, the monk gregor mendel carried out the first genetic studies that are known. Using peas, mendel determined the laws of inheritance, advanced the future concept of. "gene" and coined the terms "dominant" and "recessive" in relation to the heritability of biological traits. A few decades later, francis galton, a relative of charles darwin, became a pioneer of differential and personality psychology through the development of psychometry. Francis galton"s student and prot g , the mathematician karl pearson, made fundamental contributions in the field of statistics and questioned mendelian laws.
