Differences

How/Why are people different?

Gender identity, sexual preference, happiness, success and failure in life, mental illness; Personality, Intelligence

Personality

Person’s style of dealing with the world and other people.

Assessing measurs of personality: Reliability and Validity

The big five:

• Neuroticism - stability (N)
• Extroversion - introversion (E)
• Openness to experience - non openness (O)
• Agreeableness - antagonism (A)
• Conscientiousness - undirectedness (C)

Intelligence

Two factors: general intelligence, specific ability

Behavioral genetics - Why are people different?

Genes & Environment Nature & Nature

1. High heritability: 0.3-0.7
2. The rest is due to non-shared environment: 0.3-0.7

Parenting

Do parents matter?

• Gene matters. Parents and practice don’t matter.

Clinical Psychology

Notions of mental disorders:

• demonic possession
• social deviance
• illness

Schizophrenia

Afflicts about 1% of the world’s population.

Symptoms:

• Positive symptoms: hallucinations, delusions, disorganized speech, disorganized behaviors
• Negative symptoms: absence of normal cognition

Mood disorders

Major depressive disorder, bipolar depression

Anxiety disorders

A diffuse, vague feeling of fear

Dissassociation disorders

Literally a dis-association of memory

Personality disorders

Extreme/Inflexible personality types: paranoid, narcissistic, dependent, histrionic, borderline

Antisocial personality disorder

Therapy

(credit to Coursera)