Basic Personality

Question 1

Explain Clonginger’s Tridimensional Model of Personality.

Answer 1

1. personality
2. temperament: habit systems
3. character: cognitive sets

Question 2

Name the habit systems from Cloninger’s Tridimensional Model of Personality.

Answer 2

1. passive avoidance: harm avoidance
2. incentive activation: novelty seeking
3. social attachment: reward dependence
4. partial reinforcement: persistence

Question 3

Name the cognitive sets from Cloninger’s Tridimensional Model of Personality.

Answer 3

1. individual: self-directedness
2. social: cooperativeness
3. universe: self-transcendence

Question 4

Which dimensions of the Five Factor Model are related to violence?

Answer 4

Neuroticism, Agreeableness and Conscientiousness.

Question 5

Explain Eysenck’s PEN model.

Answer 5

1. Psychoticism, low cortisol: SA, under-aroused patterns
2. Extraversion, low cortisol: excitement seeking
3. Neuroticism: SA to raise mood

Question 6

How can personality and social learning lead to crime?

Answer 6

• decreased social modelling
• parenting of an antisocial child
• environment

Question 7

Explain the development of Eysenck’s theory of antisocial behaviour.

Answer 7

1. criminals have higher extraversion
2. impulsivity between psychoticism and neuroticism
3. neuroticism and conditioning through criminal learning
4. psychoticism is a controversial construct

Question 8

Explain hot-blooded vs cold-blooded aggression.

Answer 8

• hot-blooded aggression: high N, low A
• cold-blooded aggression: low N, low A.

Neuroticism is also the differentiating factor between primary and secondary psychopathy.

Question 9

Which personality facets are characteristic of childhood/adolescent psychopathy?

Answer 9

• high neuroticism
• low agreeableness
• low openness to experience
• low conscientiousness

Question 10

What personality traits are related to general offending?

Answer 10

• high neuroticism
• high extraversion
• low agreeableness
• low conscientiousness

violent offenders: low O, low E

Question 11

What are the domains of the Personality Inventory for DSM-5 (PID-5)?

Answer 11

1. negative reactivity
2. detachment
3. disinhibition
4. antagonism
5. psychoticism

Question 12

What are the traits of the Dimensional Assessment of Personality Pathology?

Answer 12

1. emotional dysregulation
2. dissocial behaviour
3. inhibition
4. compulsivity