U09 Psych 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Problem Solving, Antidepressant, Observability
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Personality: stable set of characteristics and tendencies that influence an individual"s response to a variety of circumstances. Explains why people are the way they are and why they do what they do. Both flush toilet before and after use. Monozygotic twins are more similar than dizygotic twins. Twins raised apart are more similar than siblings raised together. Adopted siblings are no more alike than people randomly selected from population. Personality of adopted children not all that similar to parents. Genes exert their influence through other biological elements. People describe their pets in the same way as others describe. First borns (cid:313) dominant (cid:315) open-minded conscientious (cid:313) sociable (cid:315) Believed by sheldon that personality correlated with body types. Personality theorists have tried to identify the most parsimonious number of key personality traits. Freud thought physical symptoms can come from the mind. Hysteria: no physical foundation for them but people still experience some.
