Eysenck, McCrae, and Costa

Question 1

Three personality assessment of Eysenck

Answer 1

Eysenck Personality Inventory
Maudsley Medical Questionnaire
Maudsley Personality Inventory

Question 2

EYSENCK OBSERVED THAT PSYCHOLOGY HAS TWO MAJOR ORIENTATIONS:

Answer 2

Personality psychology
Experimental psychology

Question 3

Theoretical approach + Use of experimental test

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a. Identifying the main dimensions of personality
b. Devising means of measuring them
c. Linking them with experimental,
quantitative procedures

Question 4

A more or less stable and enduring organization of a person’s character, temperament, intellect, and physique, which determines his unique adjustment to the environment

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Personality

Question 5

Hierarchically organized, and consists of types, traits, and habits

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Typology

Question 6

quiet, introspective individuals who are oriented toward inner reality and who prefer a well-ordered life

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Introverts

Question 7

sociable and impulsive individuals who like excitement and who are oriented toward external reality

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Extraverts

Question 8

They are emotionally unstable
individuals

Answer 8

Neurotics

Question 9

They may have low self-esteem and be prone to guilt feelings.

Answer 9

Neurotics

Question 10

The hallmark of the disorder for most neurotics is an

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anxiety level disproportionate
to the realities of the situation.

Question 11

People who score high in psychoticism can be highly creative

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Psychotics

Question 12

It shows the most severe type of psychopathology; insensitive to others, hostile, cruel, and inhumane,
with a strong need to make fools of people and to upset them

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Psychotics

Question 13

a personality test that
measures PEN (Psychoticism, Extraversion, Neuroticism)

Answer 13

Eysenck Personality
Questionnaire
(EPQ)

Question 14

Eysenck found the strong genetic basis of the primary personality types confirmed in three ways

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1. The same three personality
   orientations are found universally.
2. These traits show stability within
   given individuals over long periods
   of time.
3. The evidence provided by twin
   studies is consistent with the
   genetic hypothesis.

Question 15

According to Eysenck, socialized conduct is mediated by conscience, which he defines as the sum total of an individual’s _____ or ______ ______

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learned or conditioned responses

Question 16

These Big Five personality factors are:

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Openness
Conscientiousness
Extraversion
Aggreableness
Neuroticism

Question 17

These Big Five personality factors were confirmed through a variety of assessment techniques including

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self-ratings, objective tests, and observers’ reports