Chapter 14 TF Flashcards
Most psychologists regard Eysenck as a follower of Cattell.
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As a schoolboy in Germany, Eysenck expressed a passion for psychology
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The orthogonal rotation method tends to result in a greater number of traits than does the oblique rotation method.
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Correlations of scores with factors are called unipolar traits.
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Eysenck proposed that personality can be explained by three major types.
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Traits are more stable than states.
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Eysenck would say that his relationship with his parents, as well as other childhood experiences, played a significant role in shaping his personality.
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Eysenck’s theory is based mainly on trait level factors.
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Eysenck believed that the main differences between extraversion and introversion are not behavioral but biological and genetic in nature.
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People who score high on Eysenck’s P scale are likely to be warm, affectionate, conforming, and sociable.
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Eysenck’s P type is a bipolar factor consisting of psychoticism and superego.
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In Eysenck’s theory, P, E, and N are basically unrelated to each other.
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The personality theory of Hans Eysenck is lacking in sufficient psychometric and biological components.
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Eysenck listed four criteria for identifying a factor of which the fourth criterion is psychometric evidence.
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Eysenck recognized a seven-level hierarchy of behavior organization.
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