PSY230H1 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Tropism, Reinforcement, Neuroticism
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Temperament: stable individual differences in emotional reactivity. Emotionality: how aroused by anger and fear one gets. Eysenck ties introversion/extraversion to the cns and brain arousal. Overactive impulsive and constantly seeking highs. Orients new stimuli and responds to punishing things. Nonshared environmental variance: features of the environment that children raised in the same home experience differently. Estimates that roughly 40-50% of the variance in personality is genetically determined. Both used as explanations for homosexuality being present in the gene pool. Includes toxins from when in the womb to toxins inhaled or eaten during childhood, to things that affect us as adults. Biological determination: the belief that an individual"s personality is completely determined by biological factors (and especially by genetic factors). Tropism: the tendency to seek out specific types of environments. Tropisms are related to motivational forces behind things like temperament, which are also shaped by genetic and environmental causes. Sheldon"s theory relating body type to personality characteristics.
