PSYB30H3 Chapter 9: Personality9
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Chapter 9 the inheritance of personality: behavioural. Two different biologically based approaches consider the ways personality might be inherited: behavioural genetics. Attempts to explain how individual differences in behaviour personality traits are passed from parent to child and shared by biological relatives: evolutionary psychology. Attempts to explain how patterns of behaviour that characterize all humans originated in the survival value these characteristics provided over the history of the species. This field of research examines the way inherited biological material genes can influence broad patterns of behaviour: more accurately called trait genetics. Personality trait: pattern of behaviour relevant to more than one situation. Eugenics: the belief that humanity could (and should) be improved through selective breeding. Led to activities ranging from campaigns to keep inferior immigrants out of some countries. Attempts to set up sperm banks stocked with deposits from winners of the nobel prize.
