individual differences

Question 1

How are drug responses an individual difference?

Answer 1

individuals vary widely in their response to recreational drugs, they’re associated with individual and psychological influences.

Question 2

How are genes an individual difference?

Answer 2

They affect how sensitive/responsive an individuals nervous system is to recreational drugs, including impact on CNS transmission

Question 3

How is personality an individual difference?

Answer 3

Freud argued we develop in childhood through a series of stages which each represent psychological challenges. If we fail to overcome a challenge we become ‘fixated’ on that one stage- affecting our adult personality.

Question 4

How is brain structure an individual difference?

Answer 4

There’s lots of characteristics that differ between people and can influence brain function.

Question 5

How is handedness an individual difference?

Answer 5

significant differences in brain structures and functions between individuals. Studies of brain function have to control handedness to prevent hemispheric lateralisation becoming a confounding variable.

Question 6

How does Li add credibility to handedness?

Answer 6

He only selected right-handed people to participate