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EE Notes from texts
Biology section:
Citation: “Evolutionary Psychology: An Introduction, Second Edition” by Lance Workman and Will Reader. Cambridge University Press. Printed in 2004, 2nd edition in 2008 in the UK. Published in NYC.
“The mind, therefore, is seen as equipped with the species-specified ‘instincts’ that enabled our ancestors to survive and reproduce and which give rise to a universal human nature. This idea is in sharp contrast to the adhered to by many other social scientists who see the mind as originally a ‘blank slate’ that is molded into shape by a process of learning and socialization.” * Studies on the personalities of twins (monozygotic and dizygotic, grown up together and apart) has estimated that the Big Five personality factors (eg. Openness to experience, Conscientiousness, extraversion, Agreeableness and Neuroticism. Judged on a scale: low scores vs. high scores etc.) show coefficients of 0.3 and 0.5 :. Between 30 and 50 % of the variation among people in personality is accounted by genetic factors. Eg. 50 – 70% due to environment. * Eg. Adaptive, heritable variation: Frequency dependent adaptive strategies (eg. Mealey’s primary psychopathy), Genetically based niche filling … * Frank Sulloway’s Born to Rebel argues that birth order has a significant effect on personality. Idea that laterborns (Lenin, Jefferson etc. eg. Creative people) have these prominent traits. “He also conducted a meta-analysis of 196 personality studies of which 72 supported his predictions, 14 contradicted them and 110 showed no effect either way.” (Sulloway, 1995) * His unreliable findings show: 0.14 partial correlation with birth order in terms of Extraversion but with a 0.001 significance level.
Citation: Personality and Intellectual Competence by Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic and Adrian Furnham. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., Publishers. Copyrighted in 2005. Printed in the USA. * Eysenck’s
EE Notes from texts
Biology section:
Citation: “Evolutionary Psychology: An Introduction, Second Edition” by Lance Workman and Will Reader. Cambridge University Press. Printed in 2004, 2nd edition in 2008 in the UK. Published in NYC.
“The mind, therefore, is seen as equipped with the species-specified ‘instincts’ that enabled our ancestors to survive and reproduce and which give rise to a universal human nature. This idea is in sharp contrast to the adhered to by many other social scientists who see the mind as originally a ‘blank slate’ that is molded into shape by a process of learning and socialization.” * Studies on the personalities of twins (monozygotic and dizygotic, grown up together and apart) has estimated that the Big Five personality factors (eg. Openness to experience, Conscientiousness, extraversion, Agreeableness and Neuroticism. Judged on a scale: low scores vs. high scores etc.) show coefficients of 0.3 and 0.5 :. Between 30 and 50 % of the variation among people in personality is accounted by genetic factors. Eg. 50 – 70% due to environment. * Eg. Adaptive, heritable variation: Frequency dependent adaptive strategies (eg. Mealey’s primary psychopathy), Genetically based niche filling … * Frank Sulloway’s Born to Rebel argues that birth order has a significant effect on personality. Idea that laterborns (Lenin, Jefferson etc. eg. Creative people) have these prominent traits. “He also conducted a meta-analysis of 196 personality studies of which 72 supported his predictions, 14 contradicted them and 110 showed no effect either way.” (Sulloway, 1995) * His unreliable findings show: 0.14 partial correlation with birth order in terms of Extraversion but with a 0.001 significance level.
Citation: Personality and Intellectual Competence by Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic and Adrian Furnham. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., Publishers. Copyrighted in 2005. Printed in the USA. * Eysenck’s