Characteristic Adaptations:

E.g. being a scientist, being a biologist, being a dentist are characteristic adaptations.
Being a boyfriend of Anna K. is a characteristic adaptation.
You are adapted to these situations.

"CB5T claims that every aspect of personality (the persistent behavioral features of an individual) can be categorized as either a trait or a characteristic adaptation. Personality traits are defined as probabilistic tendencies toward certain patterns of behavior, motivation, emotion, and cognition in response to classes of stimuli that have been present in human environments over evolutionary time. The fact that they are probabilistic entails that they refer to distributions of states, meaning, for example, that an introvert may occasionally find themselves in a highly gregarious state, but they are statistically less likely to occupy such a state than an extravert. Personality psychologists have understood traits both interpersonally, as the dimensions by which individuals vary, and intrapersonally, as the mechanisms that produce stable patterns in an individual’s behavior and experience. CB5T bridges the gap between these two conceptions of traits, asserting that each trait as a dimension of variation among people reflects individual differences in a cybernetic mechanism or set of mechanisms that are present in every intact human brain. Characteristic adaptations are relatively stable patterns of behavior, motivation, emotion, or cognition that are specified in relation to an individual’s particular life circumstances. They are an individual’s specific set of learned habits of both thought and action; that is, they are ways that people have adapted to their ongoing experience (not evolutionary adaptations that constitute change across generations). Characteristic adaptations are the updateable memory contents of the cybernetic system. They can be comprehensively described in terms of three non-overlapping categories—goals, strategies, and interpretations—which correspond to the three necessary components of a cybernetic system: goals, operators, and representations of the current state. Though many characteristic adaptations (e.g., being a lawyer) are broad and may include many more specific characteristic adaptations bundled together, CB5T argues that they are always decomposable into these three elements."