PSYCH 290 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Type I And Type Ii Errors, Phineas Gage, Convergent Validity
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An individual"s characteristic patterns of thought, emotion, and behavior, together with the psychological mechanisms- hidden or not- behind those patterns. Individual differences and where these differences come from. Weseley autry might be more impulsive than the other people on the subway, which is why only he jumped in to save the person. Woman who killed her husband and still went to work can be seen as impulsive and antisocial. How personality is in uenced by biological processes (physiology, genes, evolution, anatomy) Phineas gage case study showed that frontal lobe contributes to personality. Weseley autry saw the person having a seizure, activating his ight or ght response, so he jumped in to save the guy. Woman who killed who husband and still went to work had a chemical inbalance in the brain. Transference: misattributing personality characteristics to those who resemble signi cant others.
