PSY 393 Lecture Notes - Phenotype, Mazda Mzr Engine, David Buss
10 Sep 2014
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Introduction to biological approach: biological creatures, we are animals. Two main areas of biological approach: genetic determinates of personality. Evolutionary psychology: all life has undergone a change: complex biological systems producing human behavior. Personality and constitution: connecting our personality to the physical makeup of our bodies, hippocrates and galen greek physicians, hippocrates. Brain was responsible for our thoughts and behaviors. Unable to place the source: galen. Four humors: humor: bodily fluid believed to produce a particular behavioral trait. Deficits and abilities would show in the skull: eeg studies: Search for electrical patterns within personality: more electrical activity in certain regions depending on personality type. Temperament: stable behavioral dispositions that are present at birth, babies aren"t born with major personalities but they are born with something. 2: how you"re engaging, how you respond to situations and what situations can you find certain people in, similar to how we think of personality. Not: aspects of temperament, individual differences, present in early life.
