PSY 005 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Mirror Test, Heritability, Self-Awareness
8 Sep 2020
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Beliefs about unique personal traits, preferences, tastes, talents. Beliefs about our identities in specific relationships. Beliefs about our identities as members of social groups to which we belong. Infantile amnesia- don"t code self until we have sense of self. Need to maintain a stable, subjectively accurate self-concept. Need for a positive self-view and to protect against negative feedback. Bad at planning how long it will take to accomplish a task. Consistent ways that people think, feel, and act across classes of situations. Five personality traits that psychologists believe are the basic building blocks of. The degree to which traits or physical characteristics are determined by genes and hence inherited from parents. Twins who originate from a single fertilized egg that splits into two exact replicas that then develop into two genetically identical individuals. Twins who originate from two different eggs fertilized by different sperm cells; like ordinary siblings, they share on average half of their genes.
