PSY 325 Lecture Notes - Lecture 34: Heritability, Reaction Formation, Attachment Theory
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***people high in o are more likely than other people to like blues, folk, jazz, and classical music. 80% of the variance of schizophrenia in a large population is due to genes and the rest is due to environments. ***she is going to ask what ballpark the big five traits are on heritability estimates. Divorce itself is not heritable, but traits that lead to the reasons of divorce likely are (genes) Describe personality using funder"s analogy of baby rockefeller"s wealth: She is going to grow up with money, but depending on her personality, we don"t know what she"s going to do with it. Traits can be inherited, but we cannot predict how people handle them. In object relations theory, what is meant by splitting Splitting is the idea that we can"t love every part of another human, so we split them into parts that we idealize and destroy. So we outwardly portray the opposite of hate.