ISS 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Heredity, Malnutrition, Twin
29 Apr 2018
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ISS210 - Lecture 14&15: Power & Psychology - Chapter 9
Learning Objectives:
● Explain the nature-versus-nurture controversy over the determination of personality
● List the different approaches to explaining and understanding personality
● Describe how power is related to the study of personality
Psychology and the Study of Personality:
● What is Personality?
○ Personality is all the characteristic ways of behaving that an individual exhibits;
the characteristics, enduring and organized patterns of thought, emotion, and
behavior
○ Psychology is the social science discipline that analyzes personality
Personality and Individual Responses to Power:
● What does personality have to do with power?
○ Individual responses to authority are a product of personality
○ How a person exercises authority is a product of the personality of the authority
figure
● Nature versus Nurture
○ Scientists decision falls on both nature and nurture
○ Is the similarity of a child to his or her parents a result of what is learned in the
home or do children inherit personality characteristics of their parents?
■ What is the relative influence of these factors on personality?
■ Part of a larger controversy about the influence of genetics on behavior
○ Twins
■ Some studies of identical twins have suggested that heredity plays an
important role in personality
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Document Summary
Iss210 - lecture 14&15: power & psychology - chapter 9. Explain the nature-versus-nurture controversy over the determination of personality. List the different approaches to explaining and understanding personality. Describe how power is related to the study of personality. Personality is all the characteristic ways of behaving that an individual exhibits; the characteristics, enduring and organized patterns of thought, emotion, and behavior. Psychology is the social science discipline that analyzes personality. Individual responses to authority are a product of personality. How a person exercises authority is a product of the personality of the authority figure. Scientists decision falls on both nature and nurture. Part of a larger controversy about the influence of genetics on behavior. Some studies of identical twins have suggested that heredity plays an important role in personality. Sex - genetic & physical differences determined by hormones in embryos, androgen & testosterone. But gender is socially constructed by the social environment a child is raised in.
