Personality Flashcards
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What are the individual difference in behaviour viewed as noise?
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- non adaptive
- random
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What is personality?
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- individuals from the same species differ from each other in their behaviour
- this variation is temporally consistent
- the behavioural tendencies generalise across contexts
- they are heritable
/ they can have fitness consequences
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Q
How do we measure personality ( the biologists way?
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- observation
- experimentation
- assessment by knowledgable informants
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What’s the level of analysis for personality?
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- population specific personality traits = specific to a species
- universal personality traits = consistent variation across species
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How to measure personality diagnostic criteria?
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- correspondence between raters/ observers
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Q
Evidence for personality?
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- anti predator behaviour, hawk and chaffinches
- measure baseline activity levels under same conditions.
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Q
Personality evidence in reproductive success, bighorn sheep (reale et al 2000)?
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Measured personality as the liklihood to approach a salt lick associated with capture traps and the time spent in proximity of the salt lick
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Evidence in pre and early post natal experience?
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- prenatal stress in pregnant rhesus macaques induced impaired neuroma tot development and attention deficit st birth
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Evidence genes x environment?
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- neurotransmitter serotonin: there are variations in the genes involved in functioning of serotonin
