Some key concepts in Psychology 471, pre-midterm:

Personality

Correlation coefficient

Correlational design vs. experimental design

Reliability

Validity

S or self-report data

B or behavior/observation/test data

Projective tests

I or informant data

L or life history/record data

Aggregation

Expectancy effects and self-fulfilling prophecies

Big Five

Neuroticism

Psychoticism

Lexical study

Factor, and factor analysis

Factor structures (of personality characteristics)

Personality disorder

Heritability

MZ twins and DZ twins

Three laws of behavior genetics (Turkheimer)

Gene-environment correlation ----| Funder discusses both of these under the label of

Gene-environment interaction ----| "gene-environment interactions"

Nonshared environment vs. shared family (common) environment

Allele

Repeat polymorphism

Relation of genes to proteins

Proteins in nervous system (examples)

EEG asymmetry