PSYCH 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Falsifiability, Twin, Psychoanalytic Theory
2 Sep 2016
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You are about to go on a blind date your friend is setting you up on. An individuals characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting: a persons" unique and stable pattern of characteristics and behaviors. We see that numerous personality traits, including anxiety proneness, impulse control, and traditionalism, are highly influenced by genetic factors. Identical twins reared apart to tend to be very similar in their personality traits. There also far more similar than fraternal twins reared apart. Its also evident that identical twins reared apart are about as similar as identical twins reared together, so environmental factors appear to play little role in adult personality. Do you believe that experiences in childhood (love and care for parents) influence your adult life. Freud: a neurologist, his patient"s disorders made no neurological sense. For instance, a patient might have lost all feeling a hand, yet no sensory shows damage. Thus he can have concluded; that many mental disorders were somatogenic.
