PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12.2: Amygdala, Middle Frontal Gyrus, Orbitofrontal Cortex
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12. 2 cultural and biological approaches to personality. Weird stands for western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic. People in different countries share the same personality factors. Challenges in cross-cultural research: translation challenge, ensuring that people use the same kind of reasoning process when answering the questions. Ex: in countries where people are encouraged to be humble and self critical, people would rate their personalities more negatively: problem of essentializing cultural differences. To essentialize a cultural difference is to attribute that difference to something fundamental to the culture. Identical twins show much stronger correlation for each personality trait than fraternal twins: minnesota study of twins reared apart located twins that have been raised in separate households. Animal behaviour: the evolutionary roots of personality: animals have different personality traits. Individuals who are familiar with the animals rate their behaviours according to the five factors: observers agreed on their ratings of extraversion and neuroticism in the animals studied.
