PSYCH211 Lecture Notes - Extraversion And Introversion, Takers, Conscientiousness

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH211
• Professor: Mathieu Le Corre

Document Summary

Temperament babies" personalities: reactivity and behavioural inhibition. The highly reactive babies (to the stimulus) tend to grow up into shy kids. The relax/chill kids grow up into more outgoing/extroverted kids. For some kids, the threshold of stimulus is very low (reactive kids jump at small stimulus) For some kids, the threshold of stimulus is very high (kids do not react so much to same stimulus) The highly reactive babies are overwhelmed by stimulus more often. We like being close to the threshold (not above, and not too far below) It"s not black or white (not just a high and low threshold, but a spectrum for different people) Very rare to see people who were very reactive as babies to be very chill later on. Has little to do with parenting at a young age. Make a child more reactive by putting them in a more unstable environment: complete lack of care has massive effects.