PSY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Cognitive Therapy, Aversion Therapy, Sexual Attraction
15 Oct 2018
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Lecture notes for section 4 of class start here. Personality: distinctive and relatively stable pattern of behaviors, thoughts, motives, and emotions that characterizes an individual. Trait theories: explain differences between people in terms of stable personality traits, modern day psychologists have found 5 personality dimensions that span cultures. The 5 factor theory: extraversion, neuroticism, conscientiousness, agreeableness, openness to experience. The 5 factor theory: helpful in predicting general trends in behavior, too general to predict behavior in a specific situation. Heredity and temperament: temperaments: physiological dispositions to respond to the environment in certain ways, present in infancy, assumed to be innate, relatively stable over time. Include: reactivity, soothability, babies who are easy or slow to warm up tend to be that way 10 years later. Genetic influences on personality: 123 pairs of identical twins and 127 pairs of fraternal twins, measured on big five personality dimensions, results suggest that personality differences in the population are 40 - 50% genetically determined.
