PSYCH 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Factor Analysis, Availability Heuristic, Representativeness Heuristic

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Personality- an individual"s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting. A person"s unique and stable pattern of characteristics and behaviours. We see that numerous personality traits, including anxiety proneness, impulse control, and traditionalism, are highly influenced by genetic factors. Identical twins reared apart tend to be very similar in their personality traits. They"re also far more similar than fraternal twins reared apart. It"s also evident that identical twins reared apart are about as similar as identical twins reared together. So environmental factors (shared environment) appears to play a role in adult personality. These ideas were revolutionary in freud"s day. Freud- a neurologist, his patients" disorders made no neurological sense. For example, a patient might have lost all feeling in a hand, yet no sensory nerves show damage. Thus he concluded that many mental disorders weren"t somatogenic (ex. physiologically caused). Psychoanalytic theory rests on three core assumptions: 1) freudians believe in psychic determinism: assume all psychological events have a cause.

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