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Biological Bases of Personality and Intelligence Flashcards

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What is genotype?

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The internal genetic code for maintaining a living individual

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What is phenotype?

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The outward manifestation of the individual

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What is genetic heritability?

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The assessment of the extent that any phenotype is passed on from children to children from genes

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What influence does the environment have?

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On heritable variability and lower shared variance

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What does low variability between the parent and child mean?

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High proportion of shared variance the characteristis

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What are certain behaviours linked to?

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Certain personality traits which are heritable

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What are the three things that influence personality?

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Social theories (environment)
Genes (variation in brain structure and function
Gene-environment interaction

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What are the issues of genetic analyses?

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Biological mechanisms that they can identify with are not specific unless looking at the effect on individual genes

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What is a lesion study?

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A method for studying personality= investigation of the brain that has been impacted by an event

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Who studied brain injury and personality?

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Forbes et al

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What did Forbes et al find?

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Damage to the left dorso lateral pre frontal cortex associated with high neuroticism and low conscientiousness

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What do the Forbes et al findings suggest?

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That N + C rely on a common neural structure

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What is a criticism of Forbes et al?

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Study doesn’t indicate anything functional unless using functional imagery

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Who looked at cortical folding?

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Schultz et al

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What did Schultz et al find?

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High levels of neuroticism associated with low cortical folding of the left dorsal lateral pre frontal cortex. Structural changes associated with neuroticism=m

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Who looked at structural brain images?

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Ejindhoven et al

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What did Ejindhoven et al find?

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Neuroticism companied with cortico-limbic brain structures
High N scores predicted by thinning of the left orbital frontal cortex and smaller volume of the right amygdala

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What evidence supports Ejienhoven et al?

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The limbic system being involved in emotional activity + the orbital frontal cortex being associated with personality traits

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What does gene expression do?

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Control brain development in the limbic system

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What are the traits of gene expression?

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Complex + coordinated

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What occurs to genes?

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Need to be transcribed to make mRNA which is translated to proteins

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What are the components of chromosomes?

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Long strand of DNA spaced with non-functional sequences

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What are the contributions to a trait?

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Genetics, shared environment + non-shared environment

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What are the types of studies?

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Twin, adoption + family

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Who found the three types of studies?

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Plomin et al

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What are twin studies?

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MZ and DZ comparison

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What are adoption studies?

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Personality compared with adopted children and adopted parents and biological

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Which journal article looked at adoption studies?

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Goldsmith 1983

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What did Goldsmith find?

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Adoption studies provide estimates for genetic and environmental influences

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What are family studies?

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Observation, interview and questionnaire, but similarities might be due to environmental

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What are the comparisons between twin, family + adoption studies?

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Between siblings, twins, reared together or apart to examine the extent of genetic environmental effects

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What are the three types of genetic variance?

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Additive, dominant + epistatic

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What is additive genetic variance?

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The total effect on a trait from one or more gene loci
Each locus contributes to a trait (measurable)

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What is dominant genetic variance?

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Certain genes are expressed and others aren’t

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What is epistatic genetic variance?

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Genes + environment interact and particular genes will be expressed in certain circumstance

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Who spoke of the non shared environment characteristics that influence personality?

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Harris

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What are the non shared environment characteristics that influence personality?

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Context specific socialisation
Outside the home socialisation
Transmission of culture via group processes
Group processes that widen differences between social groups
Group processes that widen differences among individuals within the group

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What is context specific socialisation?

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Children learn behaviours at home and outside but become less influenced by family as they get older

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What is outside-the-home socialisation

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Children will identify with a number of social groups and could influence personality

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What is transmission of culture via group processes

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Shared norms that can influence personality aren’t always from the parent
Due to shared norms with peers and social groups, interaction with parents’ social identities + individual norms developed are shared with other people if accepted

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What is group processes that widen differences between social groups?

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Personality norms from in groups and how we reject the out-group)

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What are behavioural genetic researchers interested in?

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Estimating the extent of genetic heritability of behaviour across a population
Stating the genetic heritability of the behaviour in terms of shared variance

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What is concordance?

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The rate of probability that 2 people with shared genes will have the same score

44
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What do studies assume for adoption studies?

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No shared environment for adopted MZ twis
Personality similarities for adopted MZ twins assumed to be genetics

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What do MZ twins in adoption studies have?

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Some post-natal shared environment + extensive pre-natal shared environment

46
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Who looked at dopamine and personality?

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Munafo et al 2008

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What did Munafo et al 2008 find?

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DRD4 gene may be associated with measures of novelty seeking and impulsivity but not extraversion

48
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What traits have a biological basis according to Eysenck?

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E + N (P added later)

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What is Eysenck’s biological model of personality and arousal?

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The individual wants to maintain a balance between the excitatory mechanism and the inhibitory which is regulated by the aascending reticular activating system which is located in the brain stem

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What circuit is E related to?

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Reticulo-cortical circuit

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What circuit is N related to?

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Reticulo-limbic

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What does the RC control?

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Cortical arousal from incoming stimuli

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What does the RL control?

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Arousal to emotional stimuli

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What occurs to introverts with the RC?

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Arousal of the ARAS so they will avoid stimulation

55
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Why are neurotics more aroused?

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Due to emotional stimulation

56
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Who looked at extraverts and arousal?

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Geen

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What did Geen find?

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Extraverts chose higher levels of music to listen to while working compared to introverts

58
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What is the stereotyped behaviour of extraverts?

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  • naturally under-aroused
  • seek arousal
  • stimulus hungry
  • Approaching
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What is the stereotyped behaviour of introverts?

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  • naturally more aroused
  • prone to over-arousal
  • stimulus shy
  • Withdrawing
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What are EEGs?

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A measure of electrical activity in the brain and broken down into delta, theta, alpha + beta

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What do alpha waves indicate?

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Low states of arousal

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Who looked at alpha waves?

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Gale 1973

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What did Gale find?

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Introverts tend to show higher levels of alpha activity than extraverts

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Who disagrees with Gale?

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Stenberg

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What did Stenberg find?

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No significant relationship between EEG measures for E + N

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What are ERPs?

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Aame as EEG but in response to a stimuli in the environment

67
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What waveform indicates arousal in ERPs?

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300 MS

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Who looked at 300 MS waveform?

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Stelmack and Houlihan

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What did Stelmack & Houliman find?

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Higher levels pf P300 amplitudes in introverts and neurotics in response to stimuli

70
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What journal article speaks of aggression and arousal?

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Bezdjian et al

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What did Bezdjian et al say?

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Aggressive people- more ‘reactive’ as they have ‘high emotional arousal, difficulties with impulse arousal, and an inability to regulate control emotions or affect’
There is a correlation between ‘psychopathic personality traits and ….proactive aggressive’
Proactive aggression + reactive are heritable

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What are the criticisms of Eysenck’s theory?

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Genetic components not clear cut for Neuroticism in comparison to Extraversion
Other issues with self-report scores in general – can people be out of touch
with emotions?
e.g. alexiythymic.
Does not distinguish between LH and RH as some studies point to personality change following damage to the cortex

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Who looked at the five factor model?

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Hsu et al

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What did Hsu et al do?

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810 young participants used to generate networks of brain areas and activation patterns.
Looked at the resting state fMRI data from 810 young adults
If activation patterns be used to predict scores on OCEAN traits

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What did Hsu et al find?

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Activation patterns cannot predict scores for E but yes for everything else

76
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Who proposed the reinforcement sensitivity theory?

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Gray

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What does Gray suggest?

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Individual differences in the physiology of the nervous system, reinforcement history and their level of arousal, may determine the way how the components of the conceptual nervous system leads to three sets of behaviours shown by many animals and humans.

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What is the reinforcement sensitivity theory?

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Biological mechanisms move towards things that they desire and away from things that worry them

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What is personality based on in the RST?

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Interaction between the behavioural approach system, the behavioural inhibition system and the fight/flight/freeze system

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What is the behavioural approach system?

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Motivations to approach
Causes sensitivity to potential rewards and the seeking of them
Motivation from reward seeking and explains attraction to certain things

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What brain areas are involved with the BAS?

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Medial forebrain bundle and the lateral hypothalamus

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Which people are linked to the BAS?

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Impulsive

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What is the behavioural inhibition system?

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Motivation to avoid things based around anxiety Motivations are conditioned and lead to sensitivities over potential punishment Avoidance of certain situations

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What brain area is involved with the BIS?

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Septo-hippocampal system, its monoaminergic
afferents from the brain stem and its neocortical
projection in the frontal lobe

85
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What people are involved with the BIS?

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Anxious

86
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What is the fight/flight/freeze system?

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Natural mechanism to stimuli that they haven’t learn a reaction to, threat system

87
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What does reward and punishment link to in the RST?

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Anxious + impulsive individuals

88
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What occurs to anxious individuals in the RST?

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Anxious respond well to punishment but not reward

89
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What occurs to impulsive individuals in the RST?

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Respond well to rewards and not punishment

90
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What supports Gray’s theory?

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Revelle et al 1980

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What did Revelle et al find?

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Moderate doses of caffeine hindered the performance of introverts and helped
the performance of extraverts on a cognitive task
In the morning, low impulsives were hindered and high impulsives helped by caffeine but the pattern reversed in the evening

92
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What is evolutionary psychology?

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Selective fitness and in this sense this is related to genes.
The ability to reproduce
Focus on largely on characteristics that humans
have in common

93
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Which journal article spoke of evolutionary psychology?

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Segal & Macdonald 1998

94
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What did Segal & MacDonald speak of?

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Inclusive fitness theory= Hamilton (1964) favouring of alleles that will cause preservation of the individual, alleles will be passed down, alleles that can ‘reduce the reproductive fitness of individuals may thus be selected if those behaviours increase the fitness of relative’ p.168
Buss (1991)= importance of looking at evolution when studying personality such as ‘acquiring mates’ p.164

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Who looked at costs and benefits in evolutionary psychology?

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Nettle 2005

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What did Nettle find?

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Extraversion
The benefits are mating success, development of social alliances + exploration of environment
The costs are exposure to high levels of risk

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