This would be my second psyc class taking. I took intro to psyc and I really enjoyed it. My teacher recommended that I take this course because she thought it would peak my interest. So while reading this first chapter it did just that. In every science course that I have taken through out my years it seems like the scientific method was always mentioned somehow, so it did not surprise me that this was one of the first things talked about. I feel like this is a basic to so many more in depth things through out the development process. It was nice to see that a lot of the main points were topics that I am already familiar with, it made the reading a lot easier for me.
The "Genetic Vulnerability" section really interested me. An interesting fact that I learned from this section was that someone is most likely to kill someone else between the ages of 15 and 25. There was a study done in New Zealand that took almost every child. This study factor how the children were treated by their parents and their variants of the MAOA gene. The study found that boys that were mistreated by their parents and had a low-MAOA were twice as likely to be more violent. This study shocked me because I never thought that someone being so violent came from having high or low levels of a gene. I always thought that it was solely the environment that they were raised in.
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