Personality PSYC - Written short answers

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Limitations of twin studies

1. Restriction of range problems.

2. Typically adopted into similar households.

3. Usually confined to only one country.

4. Always done within one generation.

5. Not enough variability.

Challenges to evolutionary psychology

1. Evolutionary psychology ignores culture.

2. An evolutionary arguments could be created for any finding.

3. Impossible to prove evolution caused these preferences.

4. Evolutionary psychology sometimes used to justify bad behaviour.

Responses to the TST test can often be categorized in into these 5 categories:

1. Social groups and classifications

2. Ideological beliefs

3. Interests

4. Ambitions

5. Self-evaluation

What is a donut personality?

Has high explicit self-esteem and low implicit self-esteem. The outside looks good, but there is a hole in the middle/center.