PSYC 2530 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Input Method, Major Depressive Disorder, Imes
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The scieniic study of what makes us who we are and the environmental and geneic factors that are involved. Explains all the ways people are similar and diferent and what makes people the way that they are: the building blocks of personality traits. The diferent ways a person thinks, feels, and acts in various situaions. How we describe human personality and idenifying important personality characterisics. The idea that personality development is related to traits is complex: some believe it is a combinaion the cultural and/or historical surroundings of a person, others believe that it is ixed and universal. Personality starts with our geneic makeup that we have inherited the study of how genes and the environment afect our personality and behaviour. Every personality component is made up of both gene and environmental porions. Is the study of how our brain and nervous system afect personality and behaviour through the study of bodily responses, brain structure, brain acivity and biochemical acivity.