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quiz 5
psychology of personality
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| How heritable are the major personality traits? | in the range of 30 to 50 percent |
| What attitude is somewhat heritable? | drinking & smoking |
| What influences marital satisfaction for the husband and the wife? | moderately heritable personality dispositions of the wives |
| what four heritable personality factors predict overall satisfaction with life? | having a sense of purpose, orientation toward personal growth, feeling your life is under your own control, having positive social relationships |
| What is a nonshared environment? | features of the environment that differ across siblings (different friends and different teachers) |
| What is a shared environment? | features of the environment that are shared by siblings (number of books in home) |
| What is a genotype-environment interaction? | the different responses from individuals with different genotypes to the same environments |
| what are the three types of genotype–environment correlations | passive, active, & reactive |
| what is a passive genotype–environment correlation? | Parents provide both genes and the environment to children, yet children do nothing to obtain that environment |
| what is a reactive genotype–environment correlation? | parents respond to children differently depending on the child’s genotypes (example: cuddling) |
| what is an active genotype–environment correlation? | person with a particular genotype creates or seeks out a particular environment. |
| What personality trait is associated with the DRD4 gene? | novelty seeking |
| What personality traits are associated with skin conductance in the absence of external stimuli? | anxiety and neuroticism |
| What measure is associated with Type A personality | cardiovascular activity; characterized by impatience, competitiveness, and hostility |
| What measures electrical activity in the brain? | EEG |
| What does the ARAS system control? | regulating wakefulness and sleep-wake transitions. |
| What are the differences in stimulation seeking of introverts and extroverts? | introverts work to decrease and avoid stimulation while extraverts work to increase and seek stimulation |
| How did Eysenck revise his theory? | eysenck revised his theories to say that the difference between introverts and extraverts lies in their arousability, not in their baseline arousal level |
| What is the behavioral activation system responsive to? | responsive to incentives (such as cues for reward) and regulates approach behavior. |
| What tendencies do those high on sensation seeking possess? | sensation seekers require more stimulation to achieve optimal level of arousal |
| How did different people respond to sensory deprivation? | high sensation seekers are less tolerant to sensory deprivation |
| what is dopamine associated with? | pleasure |
| what is serotonin associated with? | depression and other mood disorders |
| what is norepinephrine associated with? | fight-or-flight response |
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