Our environment shapes how our genes affect us though. Genes work in mysterious ways and we may not enjoy what the give to us. Good or bad, genes are what turn on nurture so our environment can shape who we are, how we behave, and possibly who we love. Ridley certainly backs his theories with much evidence and this book strongly displays his opinion of how nature brings about nurture. From the text, I gathered that Ridley wrote The Agile Gene from a biological perspective of psychology.
6. Biological Psychology is the study of biological bases of psychological processes and behavior. Historical development of biological psychology, is explained by the fact that humans as well as animals can change according to environment, this is important in order to understand just how biology and psychology go together. This is an understanding that dates back to the ancient Greeks. Plato was the one that proposed that it was the brain that was indeed the organ of all reasoning.
Five factor trait theory, and 3. Temperament model of personality can be adapted to account for variations in the personal, societal, and cultural factors discussed in this paper. How does the gene-environment interaction influence personality? A person’s genetic make-up in combination with a person’s environment form an individuals personality by interacting with each other. Abnormal or radical behavior could therefore “be explained by hereditary factors in combination with poor environmental conditions” (Oreland, Leppert, Hallman, Lindström, Nilsson, K., Sjöberg, R., …Öhrvik, J., 2006).
Behavior is a product of the interaction between both genes and environment. The extent to which genes controls behavior differs from one behavior to the next. Each individual is innately born with a different set of genetic traits found only in that particular animal or species. While genetic change is a random process, natural selection chooses the more phenotypically fit opposed to individuals
• The biological roots of human conduct have become increasingly disguised, as modern symbolic forms of indirect expressive behavior have replaced more primitive and direct ones. • At least some human behavior is the result of biological propensities inherited from more primitive developmental stages in the evolutionary process. In other words, some human beings may be further along the evolutionary ladder than others, and their behavior may reflect it. • The interplay between heredity, biology, and the social environment provides the nexus for any realistic consideration of crime causation. Basic Priniciples- Psychological Perspectives of crime causation: • The individual is the primary unit of analysis.
-The interplay between heredity, biology, and the social environment provides the nexus for any realistic consideration of crime causation. • 2. What biological factors does this lesson suggest might substantially influence human aggression? -Like Charles Darwin in the nineteenth century, Konrad Lorenz in the twentieth century proposed that aggression is found throughout the animal kingdom and is also inherent in human beings. -Lorenz also claimed that instinct provides motivation and direction to human thought, and that humans value
Ultimately, the biological approach has various strengths and weaknesses in relation to health and social care. Significantly, this approach is supported by accurate research. Our understanding of genetics and mapping human genes may be used as support together with all of the medical techniques, such as MRI, to show exactly how the brain and its chemicals affect our behaviour. For example, scans show which parts of the brain are active during a particular behaviour, which would help us develop therapy. Also, the biological approach uses animal research
Believe that people naturally seek out patterns in sensory information available to them. * Know the seven modern perspectives of psychology. Biophysiological perspective: perspective that attributes human and animal behavior to biological events occuring in the body, such as genetic influences, hormones and activity of the nervous system Sociocultural persepective: persective that focuses on the relationship between social behavior and culture. Cognitive perspective: focuses on mental processes such as memory, intelligence, learning, problem soliving and
Once one realizes that psychology is a branch of biology, inferential tools developed in biology -- its theories, principles, and observations -- can be used to understand psychology. Here are five basic principles -- all drawn from biology -- that EPs apply in their attempts to understand the design of the human mind. The Five Principles can be applied to any topic in psychology. They organize observations in a way that allows one to see connections between areas as seemingly diverse as vision, reasoning, and sexuality. Principle 1.
Explain one study related to localisation of function in the brain. Using one or more examples, explain effects of neurotransmission on human behaviour Using one or more examples, explain functions of two hormones in human behaviour. Discuss two effects of the environment on physiological processes Neuroplasticity (Rosenzweig & Bennet/Macguire); SAD(Rosenthal) Examine one interaction between cognition and physiology in terms of behaviour. Evaluate two relevant studies. Meditation (Davidson); SAD (Rosenthal); Amnesia (H.M/Clive Wearing) Discuss the use of brain imaging technologies (for example, CAT, PET, fMRI) in investigating the relationship between biological factors and behaviour.