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Personality Influences
- 1. Heredity
- 2. Birth Order
- 3. Parental Characteristics
- 4. Cultural Environment
- 5. Isolation
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Heredity
Physical traits, instincts, aptitude
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Insitinct
Innate reactions
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Aptitude
the capacity to learn a skill
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Birth Order
- Oldest v. Youngest
- Middle v. Only
- Older v. Younger Twins
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Isolation
seperated from culture
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Kingsley Davis-Anna
- Confined to attic room, when found had mental capacity of an 8 month old, died age 10
- Conclusion: extremely necessary for little children to have human contact
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Kingsley Davis- Isabel
- Deaf/mute mom in a room, acted like a feral 6 month old, eventually caught up to her age group after rigourous training
- Difference from Anna: Had human contact
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Susan Curtiss- Genie
- Discovered at 13, confined to a small room, had social and mental capacity of a 1 year old
- Conclusion: negative human contact with werewolf dad
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Harry Harlow
Rhesus Monkeys and varied mothers
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Rene Spitz
- Helped 100 baby orphanage
- (1/3) of babies died due to lack of care
- While care was great, there wasn't enough to go around
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