PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Confirmation Bias, Factor Analysis, Observational Learning
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Personality: people"s typical ways of thinking, feeling and behaving. Trait: enduring predisposition that influences our behaviour (like aggressiveness, kind, social, caring, talkative) Twins raised together: personality traits are influenced by genetic factors (anxiety, impulse control). Twins raised separated: identical twins had similar personalities, more similar than fraternal twins. Twins raised separated are as similar as twins raised together. Personality of adopted kid is similar to biological parent. Claims are exaggerated, researchers have failed to show strong relationship between birth order and personality. They apply an indirect influence on certain personality traits but they don"t choose specific behaviours/attitudes. Molecular genetic studies: genes code for proteins that influence neurotransmitters like dopamine, neurotransmitters are related to personality traits. Connection between novelty seeking (means to go out and enjoy new experiences) with attention deficit, etc. Guilt-free people: superego: sense of morality, ego: interact w/ the real world and finding ways to resolve demands of other pschic agencies.
