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Answer to the following prompts: What are your reactions to the “killer brain videos”? Explain how genetics and the environment play a role in psychopathology. What are your takeaways from Carey & DiLalla’s article (What did you learn about the twin studies and the intersectionality between gene and environment)? Lastly, heredity is powerful… it can advance the human race and can also pass on many debilitating/ life-threatening diseases. What are your thoughts on eugenics? Can just improving human heredity (for example: “eliminating the feeble-minded”) immune the human race from detrimental illnesses (physical and psychological)? In your opinion, why is the concept of eugenics problematic? -Refer to the videos and readings posted under the ‘course materials’. (1004) Chapter 1 | The Eugenics Crusade – YouTube (1004) Three Ingredients for Murder: Neuroscientist James Fallon on psychopaths and libertarians – YouTube 26088739 (blackboardcdn.com)
