PSYC 001 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Twin, Psychodynamics, Parenting Styles
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Chapter 13 personality: personality a person"s characteristic thoughts, emotional responses, and behaviors, personality trait a pattern of thought, emotion, and behavior that is relatively consistent over time and across situations. Identical twins generally prove more similar than fraternal twins: parenting style has relatively little influence on personality. Attributing unacceptable qualities of the self to someone else. Warding off an uncomfortable thought by overemphasizing its opposite. Concocting a seemingly logical reason or excuse for behavior that might otherwise be shameful. Person with unacknowledged same-sex desires makes homophobic remarks. Person cheats on taxes because everyone does it . Shifting the attention of emotion from one object to another. Channeling socially unacceptable impulses into constructive, even admirable, behavior. Person yells at children after a bad day at work. Development and life events alter personality traits: basic tendencies dispositional traits determined largely by biological processes, characteristic adaptations adjustments to situational demands, conscientiousness increases as people age.
