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Chapter 5: Biological Aspects of Personality
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Evolutionary Psychology
Theoretical framework suggesting natural selection has led to certain genetically-based characteristics affecting personality and social behavior.
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Natural selection
Process where certain characteristics increase the reproductive success of an organism, leading to greater survival of the species.
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Heritability
A measure of the proportion of variability in a trait within a population that is associated with genetic variability.
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Temperament
Stable individual differences in emotional reactivity, typically apparent early in life, influenced by nervous system responses.
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Eysenck’s CNS Model of Temperament
Proposes that differences in central nervous system activity account for levels of introversion and extraversion in individuals.
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Behavioral Activation System (BAS)
A system that regulates a person’s response to rewards and pleasurable stimuli.
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Behavioral Inhibition System (BIS)
A system that orients a person to novel situations, responding to punishing or aversive stimuli.
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Cloninger’s Tridimensional Model
A model proposing three biologically-based personality traits tied to specific neurotransmitter functions in the CNS.
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Novelty Seeking
A tendency to become excited by novel stimuli and explore the environment, related to dopamine activity.
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Harm Avoidance
Tendency to worry and feel tense, related to aversive stimuli and punishment signals, positively associated with serotonin.
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Reward Dependence
A behavioral maintenance system characterized by persistence in actions that produce rewards, inversely related to norepinephrine.
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