Lecture 2

Question 1

Nature

Answer 1

Personality traits and abilities are determined by our genetics

Question 2

Nurture

Answer 2

Our enviroment upbringing and experiences explains how we behave

Question 3

Hitory of nature vs. Nurture
(3 steps)

Answer 3

Started off as very nature centured until behavourirsts came along John B watson and skinner proved that behaviour can be conditioned (little albert) and Bandura- social learning. This made nurture much more popular. Now more even we use lots of twin and addoption studdies.

Question 4

Heredity

Answer 4

Talks about how behaviour and psychological charachteristics are inhreited.
Most behavioural and psychological things exsist on a spectrum and are not controlled by a single gene

Question 5

Polygenic inheritance

Answer 5

Multiple genes working together to explain how a behaviour happens

Question 6

Twin studdy

Answer 6

Identical twin: monozygotic twins
Fraternal twin: dizgotic twins

Question 7

If identical twins both like pinaple on pizza that charachtaristic is…..

Answer 7

heritable

Question 8

If more faternal twins like pinapple on pizza that charachteristic is…

Answer 8

Enviromental

Question 9

If one twin loves pinaple and the other hates it and they are seperated at birth

Answer 9

We can guess this trait is due to their enviroment (nurture)

Question 10

Principal 1

Answer 10

Nature influences nurture
The way we are influences how the world interacts with us

Question 11

Principle 2

Answer 11

The right nurture is needed to fully express nature
environment shapes how genes are expressed

Question 12

Explain the influences of principle 1 on niche picking

Answer 12

-A person’s enviroment interacts with them diffrently based on their genetic expression.
-We are more likely to seak out an inviroment that is more similar to us (better matches our hereditary).

Question 13

Principle 2 and epigenetics

Answer 13

Epigenetics is the study of how your behaviors and environment can cause changes that affect the way your genes work.

Question 14

Explain Nonshared enviroment

Answer 14

This is what deferentiates two sibblings. They may have different niche picking.

Question 15

If twins were 100% the same their corelation would be of…

Answer 15

1

Question 16

What are the 3 governmental reasearch agencies in canada

Answer 16

the Candian Institutes of Health Research, the Natural Sciences andEngineering Research Council of Canada, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

Question 17

What are the 6 ethical guidelines

Answer 17

1. Seek to do research that benefits humanity
2. Minimize risks to the research participants
3. Describe the research to participants so they can give informed consent (make an educated decision about
   participating)
4. Avoid deception, and if deception must be used, debrief as
   soon as possible (give a thorough explaination)
5. Keep results anonymous or confidential
6. Give a debriefing afterward about the research purposes