PSY lec 6: Intelligence

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How do genes affect your thoughts, feelings, and behaviours?

Alleles → proteins → nervous system functioning.

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What is the exception to all of your direct relatives (parents, siblings, chuildren) being 50% geneetically identical?

A monozygotic (identical) twin.

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What does pheotypic variation mean?

What is the equation for phenotypic variation (VP)?

Within a population, traits may vary due to changes in genetic factors or environmental factors.

VP = VG + VE

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What is heritability?

What is the equation for heritability (H2)?

The portion of one’s phenotype that is due to genetics.

H2 = VG / VP

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