PSY 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Job Performance, Neuroticism, Projective Test
27 Mar 2016
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People"s typical way of thinking, feeling, and behaving. These traits account in part for consistencies in our behaviour across ime and situaions. Behaviour-geneic methods atempt to disentangle the efects of. Use twin and adopion studies to do this. Numerous personality traits are inluences by geneics but all much below a 1. 0 correlaion. Turns out that shared environment plays litle to no role in adult personality. Most research has failed to ind link between personality and order of birth. One possible excepion is acceptance of radical scieniic ideas. Remember, genes code for proteins, not speciic behaviours. Genes have indirect inluence on traits, while the environment inluences how these are displayed in our lives. Viennese neurologist who developed irst comprehensive theory of personality. Developed by sigmund freud, rests on three primary assumpions: psychic determinism, symbolic meaning, unconscious moivaion. Freud thought that the psyche consisted of three components. Id basic insincts, operates on pleasure principle.
