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| Process by which certain adaptive characteristics emerge over generations |
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| Evolutionary Personality Theory |
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| Area of study applying biological evolutioanry theory to human personality |
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| Study of how genes affect behavior |
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| stable individ. differences in emotional reactivity |
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| Measures that monitor electrical activity of skin w/ electodes |
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| Tendency to seek highly stimulating activites and novelty |
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| chemical used by nerves to communicate |
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| drug that blocks reabsorption of the neurotransmitter serotonin in the brain and thus elevates moods and alters emotional reaction patterns |
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| the level of activity within one cerebral hemisphere (left to right) |
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| The movement begun by Francis Galton that encourages preserving or purifying the gene pool of the elite in order to improve human blood lines |
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| Nonshared Enviornmental Variance |
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| Features of the envt. that children raised in thes ame home experience differently |
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| distrorted reality, odd emotional reactions, and sometimes paranoia and/or delusions |
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| disorder which an individual swings regularly between bouts of wildly enthusiastic energy and bouts of hopeless depression |
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| idea that increasing likelihood for the family members of an individ. to survive increases the likelihood that ind's genes will be carried onto the next generation even if the ind. did not reproduce him/herself |
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| Meniere's Disease- Van Gogh |
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| inner-ear disorder that can produce disabling dizziness, nausea, and auditory disturbances |
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| diseases of the brain's cerebral cortex, primarily affecting elserly people, that causes altered behavior and memory loss |
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| belief that an individuals personality is completely determined by biological factors ( and especially by genetic factors) |
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| study of the role of drugs and other toxic substanes in causing/treating psychiatric disturbance |
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| The tendency to seek out specific types of envts. |
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| W.H. sheldon: relating boy type to personality characteristics |
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| W.H. sheldon: a somotype describing muscular, large-boned, athletic types of ppl |
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| W.H. sheldon: somatotype describing slender bookworm types of ppl: |
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| W.H. sheldon: somatotype describing overweight, good-nature types of ppl |
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| Study of the influence of evolutioanry biology on individ responses regarding social matters |
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| Close bond that forms shortly after birth between an infant and mother ( or other caregiver) |
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| Concept that species evolve bc individs who can't compete well w/ enviornment croak tend to be less successful in growing to reproduce |
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| societies/cultures naturally compete for survival of fittest |
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| An effort to identify each of the thousands fo genes in our chromosones. |
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