PSYCH 2B03 Lecture Notes - Swiss Armed Forces, Confounding, Child Model
19 Apr 2013
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Types refer to discontinuous categories, these are discrete categories, and everyone fits into one. Traits are more like measuring sticks; align ppl along a continuum/ metric. Psychological characteristics go along with each of these physical types. Ectomorph tends to be taller skinnier, tends to have less muscle effort put towards intellectual tasks. Endomorphs more sociable, take pleasure from bodily sources, eating/sex etc, characterized by inertia and sluggishness, Consider a problem: some of you may say: if someone doesn"t have muscle they would pursue intellectual tasks, and if ppl are athletic they play sports. Sheldon may be right, but for dif reasons. Maybe their parents told them to go into certain things. So skinny kids parents say go to intellectual things . An approach to (not a subdiscipline of) psychology that considers species-wide universals through the lens of adaptive problems faced by ancestors. Looks for universals in humans, and considers current behaviors through the lens of.
