In sum, neural irregularity not only characterizes behaviourally relevant brain states, but also can identify trait-like changes that come with age.
As with biological traits, we can think of culture as having trait-like units that arise and then spread to varying degrees.
Therefore, hypofrontality would be a trait-like abnormality that underlies schizophrenia.
If metacognition is conceptualized as a trait-like capability that varies along a continuum from good to impoverished, psychotherapy might provide a place to practice such capacities in increasing degrees of complexity, leading to enhancement of metacognitive capacity.
There isn't a universal definition of what constitutes a pit bull -- some people maintain it's only dogs who are all or part American pit bull terrier; the more commonly held definition these days is that it's any dog with certain physical traits, like that blocky head and a short coat, regardless of their genetic makeup.
[ 12, 13] Would such "deliberative styles" tend to be trait-like, in that patients use the same deliberative style across a wide range of preventive, screening, acute-, and chronic-care health decisions?
It could have addressed the question of dwarfism as a cherished inheritance — a trait, like deafness, that is simultaneously a stigma, a handicap, a source of pride and a prerequisite for membership in a complex, charismatic and highly exclusive culture.
It was just basic Punnett squares and genetics and dominant traits and stuff like that.
Some of these recent twin analyses of autistic-like traits have also explored the nature of the relationship between the different autistic-like traits that together form the diagnostic criteria.
If we find evidence for the trait in a huge cross section of humans, then this supports our view that the trait is an adaptation —on the assumption that adaptations are organ-like traits that are products of natural selection but not subject to variation.
