Are Personality Traits Caused by Genes or Enviroment?
Genes vs. Environmental Causes
Personality Trait Changes
What are personality traits?
Different characteristics that make up an individual's personality.
Types of Traits
Agreeableness
Conscientiousness
Extroversion
Neuroticism
Openness
the changes tend to be very subtle.
Trait theory
prosocial behaviors
worries about many different things
An introvert, may find themselves becoming somewhat more extroverted as they grow older.
A very extroaverted person, for example, might become somewhat more reserved over time.
One study, the Minnesota Study, participants included identical and fraternal twins who were raised together or separately.
suggests that our personalities are made up of a number of different broad traits.
good impulse control
excitability
creative
For example
Extraversion
is a personality dimension that describes how people interact with the world.
Results revealed that personalities of identical twins were similar whether they were raised in the same household or apart
suggesting that some aspects of personality are influenced by genetics.
Key Research Principles
Plasticity principle
Role continuity principle
Maturity principle
Identity development principle
Members:
Shermy Castro,
Gianella Córdova,
Karoline Ordoñez,
Rosangel Reyes