PSYC2242 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: David Buss, Longitudinal Study, Neuroimaging
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In recent years, scientific evidence has brought many issues of nature vs. nurture into question. Temperament biologically based individual differences evident early in life. Evolution the shaping of personality by processes from our ancestral past. Genes how personality is shaped by them. Mood and emotion the neuroscience behind these two things. Plasticity environmental influences on biological structures. Self the neural bases of cognitively (cid:1445)higher-level(cid:1446) functions, including those involving the (cid:1445)self(cid:1446) 1848 phineas gage, a railroad construction man, had a bad accident where an iron rod shot straight up through the bottom of his left cheek and out of his frontal cortex, destroying a large portion of it. He could still walk and talk, but his personality had changed drastically. This accident was the first to initiate exploration of the body-personality connection. Refers to the biologically based individual differences evident early in life. Evidence: babies differ from each other right from the start.
