PSYC 2130 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Frans De Waal, Physical Attractiveness, Reductionism
21 Nov 2016
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Two different biologically based approaches consider the ways personality might be. Need to consider that personality may be related to inheritance where did this trait come inherited encoded in genes and passes across generations: behavioural genetics attempts to explain how individual differences in behaviour. A pattern of behaviour relevant to more than on situation is, by definition, a personality trait. The reason biological relatives look alike is because of the genes they share. This field examines the way inherited biological material genes can influence broad. Eugenics the belief that humanity could and should be improved through selective breeding; sperm banks; cloning the belief that it might be technologically possible to complex interaction between an individual(cid:495)s genes and the environment. Modern behavioural geneticists are quick to isolate themselves from these ideas. Neither eugenics or cloning turned out to be feasible because personality is the result of a.
