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Daryl Bambic

NOVA | The Nurture of Nature - 1 views

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behavior genetics 'nature nurture'

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  • Harvard naturalist E. O. Wilson published his seminal Sociobiology in 1975. The book unleashed a heated debate over whether social behaviors such as altruism or aggression could have a genetic basis, a controversy that helped spur the now vigorous research into such mysteries.
  • Daryl Bambic on 15 Dec 11
     
    How genes influence behaviour; the beginning of sociobiology
Daryl Bambic

Primed for Addiction? - ScienceNOW - 0 views

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addiction

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  • Daryl Bambic on 05 Feb 12
     
    How much is addiction genetic?
Daryl Bambic

Bipolar Disorder - 3 views

This is a credible site because it is recent and it is a medical website with the proper information on this disorder. It is also filled with tons of valuable information as well as facts to treat ...

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Anthony Baloukas

Is Genius Borne of Nature or Nurture? - 0 views

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genius nature nurture creativity intelligent mind

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  • Nurture would include education, parenting, learning, and time invested into the subject’s amount of learning.
    • Anthony Baloukas
      Anthony Baloukas on 06 Apr 13
       
      This is what a person is given through his/her environment when growing up.
  • Nature is the way we automatically perceive without instruction.
    • Anthony Baloukas
      Anthony Baloukas on 06 Apr 13
       
      This is what a person is given through genetics.
  • A student who is unexposed to academic curriculum cannot be expected to perform algebra simply by instinct.
    • Anthony Baloukas
      Anthony Baloukas on 06 Apr 13
       
      Example of how one could pretty much guide their child to be anything they want it to be. Whether it be successful, intelligent, athletic..
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  • Genius can be learned, it can be natural, but most importantly: it should be used.
    • Anthony Baloukas
      Anthony Baloukas on 06 Apr 13
       
      Perhaps there aren't ways to necessarily produce a genius, but we can for sure push a person to reach his/her full potential. 
  • Galileo, who applied his scholarly knowledge and found truth. Alexander the Great, tactically in battle. Benjamin Franklin, the inventor of many modern devices. Albert Einstein, a superb and original scholar. Andy Warhol, for his outstandingly appealing original creativity. Bill Gates, a technological thinker who applied his knowledge creatively.
    • Anthony Baloukas
      Anthony Baloukas on 06 Apr 13
       
      Examples of great geniuses in history
  • Therefore, we must assess that nature and nurture together combine to bring opportunity for genius.
    • Anthony Baloukas
      Anthony Baloukas on 06 Apr 13
       
      It has been concluded that both nature and nurture are combined to create what we call a "genius"
  • creativity is a part of our nature.
Anthony Baloukas

Is Genius Born or Can It Be Learned? - TIME - 0 views

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  • geniuses are the result of both good genes and good surroundings.
    • Anthony Baloukas
      Anthony Baloukas on 06 Apr 13
       
      This answers the question to my TFAD project. 
  • Geniuses are those who "have the intelligence, enthusiasm, and endurance to acquire the needed expertise in a broadly valued domain of achievement" and who then make contributions to that field that are considered by peers to be both "original and highly exemplary."
    • Anthony Baloukas
      Anthony Baloukas on 06 Apr 13
       
      The definition of genius, and what it takes to actually be a special human being. 
  • How to produce genius is a very old question, one that has occupied philosophers since antiquity.
    • Anthony Baloukas
      Anthony Baloukas on 06 Apr 13
       
      It's interesting to see that this question has been asked for a long time. If it were possible to produce a genius, would we eventually all live in a society filled with gifted individuals?
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  • There are IQ tests
    • Anthony Baloukas
      Anthony Baloukas on 06 Apr 13
       
      There is a procedure to determine whether someone is a genius or not. 
  • the debate over what leads to genius has been dominated by a bitter, binary argument: is it nature or is it nurture — is genius genetically inherited, or are geniuses the products of stimulating and supportive homes?
  • "open to experience, introverted, hostile, driven, and ambitious."
    • Anthony Baloukas
      Anthony Baloukas on 06 Apr 13
       
      This is aid to be the main characteristics of a genius. 
  • Personality traits also matter.
courtney galli

Schizophrenia: causes, symptoms and treatments - Mental Health A-Z - Douglas Mental Hea... - 0 views

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      courtney galli on 06 Apr 13
       
      Statistic
  • In Canada, one in every one hundred people is diagnosed with schizophrenia
  • In Canada, one in every one hundred people is diagnosed with schizophrenia
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  • people
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      courtney galli on 06 Apr 13
       
      Symptoms of schizophrenia 
  • Researchers do not yet know what causes schizophrenia
  • combination of problems, including genetic vulnerability and environmental factors.
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 07 Apr 13
       
      And the site summary?
  • courtney galli on 06 Apr 13
     
    This site is credible because it is a mental institute with lots of experience with this mental illness.  There are many doctors and researchers who can add/update/correct the information on the site.   
Chrissy Le

The Rules of Attraction in the Game of Love | LiveScience - 0 views

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  • Symmetry equals sex
  • If every division were to go perfectly, the result would be a baby whose left and right sides are mirror images.
  • But nature doesn't work that way.
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  • men with higher degrees of symmetry enjoy more sexual partners than men of lower symmetry.
  • Both men and women rated symmetrical members of the opposite sex as more attractive and in better health than their less symmetrical counterparts. The differences can be just a few percent—perceivable though not necessarily noticeable.
  • "It makes sense to use symmetry variation in mate choice," said evolutionary biologist Randy Thornhill of the University of New Mexico. "If you choose a perfectly symmetrical partner and reproduce with them, your offspring will have a better chance of being symmetric and able to deal with perturbations."
  • Psychologist Devendra Singh of the University of Texas studied people's waist-to-hip ratio (WHR).
  • Women with a WHR of 0.7—indicating a waist significantly narrower than the hips—are most desirable to men.
  • 0.8 to 1.0 WHR in men is attractive to women, although having broad shoulders is more of a turn-on.
  • Where fat is deposited on the body is determined by sex hormones; testosterone in men and estrogen in women. If a woman produces the proper amount and mixture of estrogen, then her WHR will naturally fall into the desired range. The same goes for a male's testosterone.
  • "The idea is that beauty is conveying information about health and fertility, and we admire that,
  • Men's faces are shaped by testosterone, which helps develop a larger lower face and jaw and a prominent brow.
  • Research reported last month found women both smell and look more attractive to men at certain times of the month.
  • The rules of attraction, it turns out, seem sometimes to play out in our subconscious.
  • A 2002 study found women prefer the scent of men with genes somewhat similar to their own over the scent of nearly genetically identical or totally dissimilar men.
michelle tappert

Causes of Eating Disorders in Children Teens Teenage Girls - 0 views

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  • At most, genetics is only half the story: there are a number of factors that occur in a person’s life that puts them at greater risk to develop an eating disorder.
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      michelle tappert on 01 Apr 12
       
      Specific examples are below. This paragraph explains all the factors. 
  • Cultural factors that emphasize thinness as part of the ideal appearance of women,
    • michelle tappert
      michelle tappert on 01 Apr 12
       
      In my opinion, this is terrible that society shapes what they believe is beautiful. We need to stop caring so much about what others want us to look like and what other people think!
  • Regardless of which among these factors may be most responsible, once an eating disorder takes hold, the individual is likely to report low self esteem and an overwhelming need for control. Weight loss and thinness define their sense of self worth.
Catherine Delisle

Economic status, genetics together influence psychopathic traits | News Bureau | Univer... - 0 views

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      Catherine Delisle on 01 Mar 11
       
      This website is very interesting because it talks about a study that has been done at the University of Illinois. This study was on psychopathy and children. It included architectural differences in the brain of a child who may have psychopathic tendencies in the future.
Catherine Delisle

Schizophrenia Causes: Genetics, Environment, Brain Chemistry, and More - 0 views

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      Catherine Delisle on 21 Apr 11
       
      This website is very interesting because it helps me understand some studies that are currently being done about the causes of schizophrenia. Scientists believe that several genes are a cause of schizophrenia, but these genes need to be combined with an environmental factor to result in schizophrenia. Also. they noticed that the brain of a person with schizophrenia has a different architecture than one without. For example, they tend to have less gray matter and the ventricles are larger.
Daryl Bambic

1.1 Psychology as a Science | Introduction to Psychology - 1st Canadian Edition - 1 views

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  • Because values cannot be considered to be either true or false, science cannot prove or disprove them.
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      Daryl Bambic on 03 Dec 16
       
      Falsifiability + Popper
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      Daryl Bambic on 20 Aug 21
       
      See Popper and why it is important to be able to prove something false.
  • This factual information can and should be made available to help people formulate their values about abortion and incarceration, as well as to enable governments to articulate appropriate policies
  • Although scientists use research to help establish facts, the distinction between values and facts is not always clear-cut. Sometimes statements that scientists consider to be factual turn out later, on the basis of further research, to be partially or even entirely incorrect
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  • A major goal of psychology is to predict behaviour by understanding its causes. Making predictions is difficult, in part because people vary and respond differently in different situations.
  • differences in extraversion, intelligence, self-esteem, anxiety, aggression, and conformity.
  • we cannot always predict who will become aggressive or who will perform best in graduate school or on the job.
  • predictions made by psychologists (and most other scientists) are only probabilistic.
  • behaviour is that almost all behaviour is multiply determined, or produced by many factors.
  • depression is caused by lower-level genetic factors, by medium-level personal factors, and by higher-level social and cultural factors.
  • single cause.
  • are not independent of one another
  • much human behaviour is caused by factors that are outside our conscious awareness,
  • Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), who argued that many psychological disorders were caused by memories that we have repressed and thus remain outside our consciousness.
  • Research demonstrates that individuals who are exposed to highly stressful situations over long periods of time develop more health problems than those who are not
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 20 Aug 21
       
      "Research demonstrates"...what is wrong with this? Can we know how this study was conducted? What were the variables? Was it correlation or causation?
  • Although science is not perfect, the requirements of empiricism and objectivity result in a much greater chance of producing an accurate understanding of human behaviour than is available through other approaches.
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      Daryl Bambic on 20 Aug 21
       
      Great psychologists have not used the scientific method and contributed important insights into human behaviour. What role does the unconscious mind play in behaviour?
  • biological influences
  • abilities and characteristics of individual people
  • social groups,
  • cognitive and motivational biases
  • Research psychologists use scientific methods to create new knowledge about the causes of behaviour, whereas psychologist-practitioners, such as clinical, counselling, industrial-organizational, and school psychologists, use existing research to enhance the everyday life of others.
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      Daryl Bambic on 20 Aug 21
       
      Leave a sticky note for yourself or others with whom you share this page.
  • collect and interpret data in their everyday lives
  • accepting explanations for events without testing them thoroughly may lead us to think that we know the causes of things when we really do not.
  • Empirical methods include the processes of collecting and organizing data and drawing conclusions about those data
  • scientific method as the set of assumptions, rules, and procedures that scientists use to conduct empirical research.
  • Statements that cannot be objectively measured or objectively determined to be true or false are not within the domain of scientific inquiry
  • Values are personal statements such as “Abortion should not be permitted in this country,” “I will go to heaven when I die,”
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