PSYB30H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Institutional Review Board, Trait Theory, Experiment
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Personality psychology: scientific study of what makes us who we are. Most psychologists agree to understand human personality we need to understand traits, genetics, neuroscience, self and identity, intrapsychic aspects, regulation and motivation, and cognition. Social and environmental forces impact personality at all these levels. Impact of social environment felt at multiple levels. Traits: pe(cid:396)so(cid:374)(cid:859)s t(cid:455)pi(cid:272)al way of thinking feeling, and acting, in various situations at different times. May be born with certain physiology making us more likely to develop certain characteristics; many other characteristics we can develop from our socialization, and from our personal experiences. Traits will be consistent across our lives and will be expressed in all sorts of ways. Genetics: study of how genes and environment affect personality and behaviour. Though many personality variables have genetic component, all of them have an environmental component as well. We may inherit specific personality characteristics, we also inherit potentialities that may be expressed in our personalities depending on environment.
