Lecture 2 - Genetic Effects on Behaviour

Question 1

(lecture):

How does our behaviour get shaped? (briefly)

Answer 1

(lecture):

see slide 3

Question 2

(lecture):

How do we know that genes influence behaviour? (what types of studies do we use)

Answer 2

(lecture):

see slide 5

Question 3

(lecture):

Describe family studies.

Answer 3

(lecture):

see slide 6

Question 4

(lecture):

Describe twin studies

Answer 4

(lecture):

see slide 7-10

Question 5

(lecture):

Describe adoption studies

Answer 5

(lecture):

see slide 11-15

Question 6

(lecture):

Describe heritability

Answer 6

(lecture):

see slide 16

Question 7

(lecture):

Watch the rest of the lecture from slide 17. A lot of the information he acc says, not on the slides.

Answer 7

(lecture):

make notes or just watch.

Question 8

(reading):

Bouchard & McGue (2003) Genetic and environmental influences on human psychological differences J Neurobiol 54(1):4-45

Answer 8

(reading):

Question 9

(reading):

Visscher et al. (2008) Heritability in the genomics era: concepts and misconceptions Nat Rev Genet 9(4):255-66

Answer 9

(reading):