PSY 208 Lecture 15: lecture 15
Document Summary
Heuristic value of the grand theories in current personality psychology, a focus by investigators on the special impact of biological factors on human development and behavior. Importance of a trait taxonomy to increase our understanding of the role of traits in personality: the emergence of a positive psychology in promoting the study of strengths and virtues in personality. Incorporating biological factors: behavioral genetics, the scientific discipline that seeks to determine the relative influences of heredity and environment on behavior differences observed among individuals, behavioral genetics, quantitative genetics, molecular genetics, human genome project, evolutionary theory and temperament. Incorporating biological factors: h. buss- 8 broad temperamental traits, emotionality, fearfulness, activity, nurturance, sociability. Interactional temperament model: environment and temperament traits mutually influence each other, need for a multicultural perspective.
