PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Conscientiousness, Biological Determinism, Dynamical System
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Genes are not altered by environment (behavior, habitat: lamarckian evolution: evolution epigenetic heritance, genetic determinism gene for x . Gene activity is altered by environmental and behavior within the environment: structural: dna coding for enzymes and proteins, regulatory: regulate gene activity. Most traits, especially cognitive ones, are polygenetic in nature. Too simplistic in nature: fails to recognize how dynamically developmental a machine the brain is. Fails to recognize how layered and dynamically complexity of the. The main problems with this framework are its infancy as well as the complexity of the modeling it requires. Personality trait: a person"s habitual pattern of thinking, feeling, and behaving. Researched immerging about 5 big facers that determine personality traits ocean: openness. Individual who are high in openness are very curious, creative, artistic, and imaginative. They tend to be willing to explore new experiences and ideas, are non- conforming, abstract in their thinking. Individual who are low in openness defend the status quo.
