Chapter 14: Eysenck's Biologically Based Factor Tveory

Question 1

Eysenck listed for criteria for identifying a factor:

Answer 1

1) personality factors must be based on strong psychometric evidence
2) must fit an acceptable genetic model. Must possess heritability
3) must make sense theoretically
4) must possess social relevance

Question 2

Eysenck recognize a four-level hierarchy of behavior organization:

Answer 2

1) specific behaviors or cognitions
2) habitual acts or cognitions
3) traits, or personal dispositions
4) types or super factors. He concentrated on this fourth level. A type is made up of several interrelated treats

Question 3

What are Eysenck’s three personality dimensions,?

Answer 3

Extraversion E, neuroticism N, and psychoticism P

Question 4

Eysenck. These type of people are characterized by sociability, impulsiveness, jocularity, liveliness, optimism, and quick-wittidness

Answer 4

Extraverts

Question 5

Eysenck. These type of people are quiet, passive, unsociable, careful, reserved, thoughtful, pessimistic, peaceful, sober, and controlled

Answer 5

Introverts

Question 6

Eysenck believed that the principal difference between extroverts and introverts is one of ______ ______ level

Answer 6

Cortical arousal

Question 7

Eysenck. These type of people have such traits as anxiety, hysteria, and obsessive-compulsive disorders. They frequently have a tendency to over react emotionally and you have difficulty returning to a normal state after emotional arousal

Answer 7

People high in neuroticism

Question 8

Eysenck. These people indicate anxiety, hysteria, egocentric schism, nonconformance, aggression, impulsiveness, hostility, and obsessive-compulsive disorders

Answer 8

People high on psychoticism. Both normal and abnormal individuals may score high on the neuroticism scale

Question 9

Eysenck excepted this model of psychiatric illness, which suggests that some people are vulnerable to illness because they have either a genetic or an acquired weakness that predisposes them to an illness. This predisposition may interact with stress to produce a neurotic disorder

Answer 9

The diathesis-stress model

Question 10

Eysenck developed for personality inventories to measure super factors, or types. The two most frequently used my current researchers is:

Answer 10

The Eysenck personality inventory which measures only E and N and the Eysenck personality questionnaire which measures all three factors

Question 11

Eysenck Believe that all three personality factors have a powerful biological component, and he cited as evidence the existence of these three types in a wide variety of ______ and _______

Answer 11

Cultures and languages

Question 12

Eysenck ‘s complex model of personality suggests that the psychometric traits of psychoticism, extroversion, and neuroticism can combine with one another and with genetic determinants, biological intermediates, and experimental studies to ______ a variety of social behaviors, including those that contribute to disease

Answer 12

Predict

Question 13

Eysenck research to the relationship between personality factors and diseased and found that:

Answer 13

People with a helpless/hopeless attitude are more likely to die from cancer, whereas people who react to frustration with anger and emotional arousal are much more likely to die from cardiovascular disease

Question 14

Eysenck theory has generated a considerable amount of research. A substantial amount of research has shown physiological differences between extroverts and introverts. One study found that Extraverts may move faster, but they do not _____ faster than introverts

Answer 14

Think. They also found that introverts work best with lower levels of sensory stimulation and extroverts with higher levels

Question 15

What three areas does Eysenck theory rate high on, and which three areas does it rate average on?

Answer 15

Hi on parsimony, ability to generate research, and useless in organizing data. Average on falsifiability, usefulness to the practitioner, and internal consistency

Question 16

Eysenck, on the concept of humanity, the Theory rates high in two areas, low on one, average on another, and it does not address two areas

Answer 16

High on a biological influences and the uniqueness of individuals. Low on social factors. Average unconscious versus unconscious influences. The concept the free choice, optimism versus pessimism, and causality versus teleology are not clearly addressed

Question 17

This person used factor analysis to identify treats, that is, relatively permanent dispositions of people and extracted only three general factors which yielded three general bipolar types: extraversion/introversion, neuroticism\stability, and psychotic schism\superego

Answer 17

Hans Eysenck