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L14 Personality Flashcards

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What are the pathways in an introvert brain?

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Longer acetylcholine pathway

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What are the pathways in an extrovert brain?

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Shorter dopamine pathwya

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Who conducted an experiment on obedience in the 1960s?

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Stanley milligram

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What is the definition of personality?

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non random, individual behavioural specialisations

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How does birth order affect personality?

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Depends where in the family you are born there is an affect of number of siblings and socioeconomic factors

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What are the sex differences influencing personality?

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INAH-3 in hypothalamus which controls sexual behaviour is three times bigger in men. SG in pre frontal cortex =, used for social cognition is 10% larger in women

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What is the hippocampus?

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cognitive map, neural representation of the environment

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Is hippocampus size sex related?

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No, size is determined by selection on a species, differs across them

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