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Chapter 5: Biological Aspect of Personality Flashcards

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Charles Darwin

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Natural Section
Evolutionary Personality Theory

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Natural Section

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Adaptive characteristics emerge over generations

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Evolutionary Personality Theory

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Attention focused on the function of a characteristic in survival

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Francis Galton

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Temperament

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Stable Individual differences in emotional reactivity

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Four basic temperaments

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  1. Activity- vigorous motion (vs. passivity)
  2. Emotionality- Easily aroused (vs. calm and stable)
  3. Sociability- Approaches and enjoys others (vs. aloof)
  4. Impulsivity- Aggressive and cold (vs. conscientiousness and friendly)
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BIS System (Behavioral inhibition System)

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Provides the orienting response to novel situations and also responds to things that are punishing

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BAS System (Behavioral Approach System)

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  • Regulate our response to rewards
  • Overactive Impulsitivity
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Eugenic

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Selective Breeding

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Nonshared Environmental Variance

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Different experiences in the same environment

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Biological Determinism

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An Individuals behavior is due to their genes or physiology

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Somatotypology

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3 Body Types
1. Mesomorphs- muscular, large- bonded athletic types
2. Ectomorphs- Skinny
3. Endomorphs- chubby

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Survival of the Fittest

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Biological reproducing of the fittest is success

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Social Darwinism

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The right for people to dominate and kill due to survival of the fittest

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Cinderella Effect

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When parents prefer their biological child over their step child

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Eysenck’s model of nervous system temperament

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Introverts- higher levels of brain arousal
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Extroverts- low level of brain arousal

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Herbert Sheldons Somatotypology model and different qualities associated with each types

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Mesomorphs- calm and steady demeanor
Ectomorphs- more intellectual and a skinny bookworm
Endomorphs- Social. Chubby people. Supposedly good natured

  • overly simplistic but there may be some metabolic or psychological link

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