PSY1011 Lecture 7: PSY1011 Lecture 7
15 Aug 2018
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Define personality and how it influences our experience of the world. Describe how twin and adoption studies shed light on genetic and environmental influences on personality. Describe key criticisms of psychoanalytic theory and the central features of neo-freudian theories. Identify the core assumptions of behavioural and social learning theories of personality. Describe trait models of personality, including the big five. These tend to make individuals within the same family more alike: non-shared environmental factors (experiences that are unique to individual members of the family; e. g. , accidents, illnesses, friends, sports and occupations. These tend to make individuals within the same family less alike. Investigators examined several personality traits as measured by the. Freud"s theories may therefore possess limited external validity for people from other cultural backgrounds: flawed assumption of shared environmental influence: may hypotheses presume that shared experiment plays a key role in moulding personality.
