PSYB30H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Prefrontal Cortex, Authoritarian Personality, Agreeableness
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Chapter 5: basic traits- in the brain and in behaviour. * contexts that encourage and support outgoing and lively behaviour are likely to predict outgoing and lively behaviour. 1st - hyperactivity -sensitive to signals of punishment, negative affect in environment - respond strong to major setbacks and minor hassles in life. 2nd - differential exposure - experience negative events more frequently, more sensitive to negative events to begin with. 3rd - differential appraisal - interpret different kinds of events. 4th- special sensitivity - create mood spillover, one area of life spill over to the next and negative moods from one day ruin the next. 6 facets of openness - fantasy, aesthetics, feelings, actions, ideas, and values: original, imaginative, creative, complex, curious, daring Low o - down to earth, uncreative, simple, incurious high o - fantasy life , more psychological insight, great variety of experience.
