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What is gene mapping?
Studying the genomes of individuals with specific traits and scanning to identify the genes directly involved
What do genes increase the risk of?
Mental disorders
What is there lots of evidence for?
Genes having a role in most behaviour
What was a problem with gene mapping?
It doesn't determine the outcome just predisposes certain outcomes
What are traits a form of?
Nature and nurture
What was there lots of indirect evidence of?
Supporting evolutionary explanations of human behaviour
What does evolution wrongly assume?
That genetic factors are unchangeable and fixed
That genes are involved in behaviour troubling
What does approaches contribute to?
Understanding the mind
What does it adopt?
Scientific methods
Why is it too simplistic?
It's too closely attached to a pure nature view of the mind
What does biological structures explain?
How interacting circuits in the brain and brain structures work together
When what is damaged can have clear consequences?
The brain, neurons, nervous system and hormones
What is the problem when biological differences are identified between those with and without disorders?
It's hard to show that the differences are perceived onset
What does neurochemistry do?
Challenge our understanding
What has to be considered?
Genes, nervous system and the endocrine system
What do neurotransmitters have difficulty showing?
That it precedes the on set psychological disorders
What is the concordance rates for MZ twins
Never 100%
What is the problem with genes?
Can't be the whole explanation
What does it mean if there's genetic influence?
The child and parent share a specific trait
Why are the concordance rates with MZ twins higher than DZ twins?
The twins grew up together
Why is there an environmental factor?
When the child and their adoptive parent share a specific trait
What is more likely to be involved if separated twins share a psychological disorder ?
Genes

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