PSYC 217 Lecture Notes - The Need, Human Nature, Fitness Landscape
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Environment has different impact depending on person"s genotype. Occurs when exposure to environmental conditions depends on a person"s genotype. You inherit the tendency to choose certain genes. (early childhood) environment provided by parents is based on parents genes -> Child shares genes, so they are also responsive to the environment. Heritable behaviour evokes and environmental response. evocation. > an important consideration going forward (*psychic determinism) Physiologically based theories of personality (not on midterm) Personality is the set of psychological traits and mechanisms within the individual that are organized and relatively enduring; and that in uence his/her interacts with, and adaptations to the intrapsychic, physical, and social environments. Freeman et al. (2013) studied the behaviours of 99 chimpanzees and identi ed 5. Tuesday, october 4, 2016 core personality traits: reactivity/undependability, dominance, openness, extraversion, agreeableness. Studies like this (and many others) suggest a strong evolutionary basis for human personality. All humans come from an unbroken line of ancestors who accomplished two tasks:
