Genetics + Behaviour

Question 1

Essential understandings (4)

Answer 1

1. Behaviour patterns = inherited for survival
2. Behaviour = genes + environment
3. Ethical considerations
4. Tech = further understanding of genetics in behaviour

Question 2

What is behavioural genetics?

Answer 2

Understanding how both genetics + environment contribute to variations in behaviour

Question 3

What do psychologists argue?

Answer 3

Individuals have gene for specific behaviour, but no stimuli (environment) = no expressed

Question 4

What is the diathesis stress model?

Answer 4

Theory: behaviour as predisposition to genetic vulnerability expressed as result of stress from environment

Question 5

What was the human genome project?

Answer 5

Map and sequence human genome

Question 6

Which behaviours do psychologists believe may be genetic in nature?

Answer 6

1. Aggression
2. Depression
3. Intelligence