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Personality

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Stems from Latin persona for mask
A pattern of relatively permanent traits and unique characteristics that give both consistency and individuality to a persons behavior

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Traits

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How are we different consistent
Individual differences
Stable across situations

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Characteristics

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Unique qualities (physique temperament intelligence)

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Barnum effect

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Individuals give high accuracy ratings to descriptions of their personality hat are actually vague

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Personality tests measure

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Character temperament disposition predict clinical disorders select careers increase function understanding

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Prime characteristics of personality

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• unique
• enduring
• evolutionary
• genetic
• made up of traits

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Genetic traits

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Novelty
Thrill seeking
Anxiety
Impulsivity

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Shared environment

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Parents
House
Siblings
Womb

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Temperament

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Biologically based disposition to behave in a certain way. Leads to future personality traits

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Dimensions of temperament

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Activity level
Sensitivity
Intensity
Adaptability
Persistence 
Mood

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Big 5

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Openness
Concientous 
Extra version 
Agreeableness
Neuroticism

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Does personality change

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More agreeable and concientous over time
Brain injury
Parenthood
Changes in life circumstances

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Tests

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S data- self report questionarre interview

O data - observation
T data- standard testing
L data - life events
Physiological data : Fmri, biofeedback

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Objective tests

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Myers Briggs
PAI
MMPU
NEOB(big 5)

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Projective tests

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Ambiguous stimuli
Roarsarch
Word association
TAT (thematic)

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Behavioral assessment

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What a person does

Journaling or observation

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Reliability

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Consistency

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Validity

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Measures what it’s suppose to

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Internal consistency

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Parts are consistent as well as the whole

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Construct validity

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Measures accuracy of a theoretical construct

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Content validity

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Is it measuring what it is suppose to

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Heirarchy of behavior organization

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Specific acts or cognitions
habitual acts
Traits
Super factors (interrelated)

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Cattels trait theory

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Inductive
Divided traits into common and unique
16 pF

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Allport

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Beloved traits followed you from situations 
Traits divided to three
-common :basic
-functionally autonomous :adult
-proprium: core

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Dispositions allport

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Personal: particular to person
Cardinal: values that rule behavior
Central: what others see

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Costa and mcrae

Facets of big 5

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• Openness: fantasy aesthetic feelings ideas actions
• conscientiousness: order, deliberation,
• extroversion: warmth, activity, excitedness, gregarious, assertive
• agreeableness: trust, altruism, modesty, tender
• neuroticism: anxiety, stress, hostility, impulseiveness

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6th hexacto model

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Honesty/humility

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Factor analysis

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Stats technique that mathematically defines meaning in set of variables

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Human genome

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80,000 genes on 23 pairs of chromosomes

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Human genome project

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Sequence entire genome

Sequence does not equal functions

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Goals of behavior genetics

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Determine % of individual differences due to genes
Determine ways genes and environment interact
Determine where in environment environment effects exist

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Hered ability

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Proportion of observed variance that is explained by genetic variance

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Environmemtality

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Variance due to environmental variance

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Behavioral genetics methods

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Selective breeding

Twin family adoption studies

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Big 5 heredablity

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E 52
0 48
c 47
N 43
A 42

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Passive

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Parents provide gene and environment but child doesn’t seek

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Reactive

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Parents respond differently based on child’s genes

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Active

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Person without genes self environment

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D4dr gene

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Chromosome 11

Codes for dopamine

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Mesomorph

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Muscular

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Ectomorph

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Thin

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Endomorph

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Overweight

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Sensation seeking

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Too much MAO

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Clogingers tridemnsionalntheory

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Novelty seeking, harm avoidance , reward dependent

Low dole, aero, norph

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Asymmetry

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Positive- left frontal

Negative - right frontal

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Four stages of attachment bowlby

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Pre attachment (0-2months) no discriminate

In the making (2-6months) directs signals to a person, no protest

Clear cut (6 months to 3 or 4) separation anxiety. Can be attached to several

Goal (3,4 +) separation protest declines

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Attachment styles ainsworth

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Secure attachment (consistent)
Avoidant (disengaged)
Ambivalent (anxious, inconsistent)
Disorganized (extreme angry)

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Self concept

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Basis for self understanding

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Social identity

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Basis for self awareness