PSY 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Malingering, Confirmation Bias, Impression Management
24 Dec 2017
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These traits account in part for consistencies in our behaviour across time and situations. Nomothetic - focus on identifying general laws that affect everybody"s behaviour. Idiographic - focus on identifying unique configurations of personality. Behavioural-genetic methods attempt to disentangle the effects of: Genetic factors - imagine you vs your parents. Shared environmental factors - parents attempt to engineer certain types of personalities in your children so they put you into specific interxns + environments. Non-shared environmental factors - unique life experiences that makes you diff from others. ^use twin and adoption studies to do this*** Numerous personality traits are influenced by genetics - but all much below a 1. 0 correlation. Shared environment plays little to no role in adult personality. Comparison of correlations of twins reared together or apart. Some personality traits have strong correlations in reared apart twins = strong genetic factor. Alienation - reared apart twin have strong 0. 55 correlation.
