PSYB30H3 Lecture 4: Lecture 4
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Several ways that stability can be studied. Changes or constancies that apply more or less to everyone. Sexual interest increase at puberty for almost everyone impulsiveness decreases with age. Changes or constancies that affect different groups differently (sex difference, cultural or ethnic group differences) Male teenagers are higher risk takers than females. White women more at risk for eating disorders individual difference level. How do we come to have the personalities we do? long thought to be due to parenting and family influences. E. g. - parents that read to their children. Parents that are violent and aggressive in punishments have children that are aggressive. Most effects are correlation not causation fail to recognize that parents also share same genes as children. Hard to pick out the effects of genetic component twin studies have addressed this problem. Suggest heritability estimates of 0. 5 for personality traits. Is counted as twin research! limits.
