personality

Question 1

PEN model

Answer 1

created by Eysenck and Eysenck who focused of temperament, inborn, genetically based personality differences that exist

Question 2

AO1 on PEN model

Answer 2

• ppl high on extraversion are ready to interact and are sociable. Ppl high on introversion want to be left alone and don’t want to interact with people.
• in the neuroticism/stability dimension, ppl high on neuroticism have overactive nervous system and with little stress they will go into fight or flight situation and are anxious. Ppl high on stability need more stimulation to active F or F and more emotionally stable.
• 3 dimension superego control and psychoticism added. Ppl high on psychoticism are hostile, independent thinkers, cold. PPL high on super ego control have high impulse control, altruistic, empathetic.

Question 3

serious criminals

Answer 3

they claim anti-social behavior comes from high neuroticism, psychoticism and extroversion according tot he PEN scale.

Question 4

AO3 for PEN model

Answer 4

• Geen 1984 showed that introverts had high arousal as they chose lower levels of sound than extraverts did so for introverts optimal stimulation given by noise was not as loud as for extroverts, arousal for introverts happened more quickly.
• McGurk and McDougall 1981 compared 100delinquents with 100 non-delinquent students and found the delinquent group high in psychoticism, neuroticism and extraversion.