PSYB30H3 Chapter 6: Chapter 6
Document Summary
Chapter 6: continuity and change in traits: the roles of genes, environment, and time. Differential continuity in adult years: longitudinal studies show remarkably high differential continuity in personality traits over adult lifespan, trait ratings in children show less differential continuity than do trait ratings in adulthood. Childhood precursors: from temperament to traits: temperament dimensions may represent early in life framework out of which personality traits eventually emerge. differences also linked to social class personality traits: complex interplay through which inborn tendencies shape and are shaped by environmental inputs over long period of time. 6 categories of nonshared family effects: perinatal trauma, accidental events, family constellation- birth order, birth spacing between siblings, sibling mutual interaction, unequal parental treatment, influences outside family- teachers, peers. How genes shape environments: environments themselves are heritable, mz twins reared together report their environments to be more highly similar than do dz twins reared together.
