Lecture ( ). Eysenck Flashcards
Eysenck Birth Order
Only Child of theatrical family
Mother & Father Occupation
Mother is a starlet
Father is comedian, singer, actir
Theory of Hans Eysenck
Biologically Based Trait Theory
Individual differences in people’s personalities were _____
biological
Evidences for biological basis of personality
- temperament (conception)
- hereditary influences
- areas of the brain that are most active during tasks
Dimensions of personality
- extraversion
- neuroticism
- psychoticism
Sociability and impulsiveness, jocularity, liveliness, quickwittedness, optimism and other traits related with associating with other people
extraversion
The principal differences between extraversion and introversion are not ______, but rather _____
behavioral, biological and genetic in nature.
High neuroticism often have a tendency to ___ and ____
overreact emotionally and to have difficulty returning to normal state after emotional arousal
People are vulnerable to illness because they either have ____ or ____
either have a genetic or an acquired weakness predisposing to illness.
This predisposition may interact with stress to produce a neurotic disorder called
Diathesis-stress model
High scorers in psychoticism are often ___
often egocentric, cold, nonconforming, impulsive, hostile, aggressive, suspicious, psychopathic, and antisocial.
Low scorers in psychoticism
altruistic, highly socialized, empathic, caring, cooperative, conforming and conventional