Gen Psych Chapter 9: Personality

Question 1

What is the definition of personality?

Answer 1

Personality is a person’s patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving.

Question 2

What three things are true about personality traits?

Answer 2

1) Each of these traits lies on a continuum. 2) You have a score for each trait. 3) Your personality profile can be captured where you are all 5 continuums.

Question 3

What is snooping?

Answer 3

Behavioral residue in people’s bedroom.

Question 4

What is behavioral genetics?

Answer 4

The interest in how genes and environment contribute to individual differences in personality.

Question 5

What are the 3 main goals of behavioral genetics?

Answer 5

1) Find out the percentage of variance due to genes & the percentage
due to the environment. 2) Figure out the ways that genes and the environment interact. 3) Figure out exactly where in the environment the effects are
coming from.

Question 6

What 3 study methods are the most common in behavioral genetics?

Answer 6

1) Twin studies. 2) Adoption studies. 3) Twin and adoptions studies.

Question 7

What is heritability?

Answer 7

Proportion of individual differences in a trait due to genes.

Question 8

How inheritable are personality traits by percentage?

Answer 8

40%-70%