Eysenck

Question 1

Eysenck believed that ______ were far more important than environmental ones in shaping personality and that personal traits could be measured by standardized personality inventories

Answer 1

genetic factors

Question 2

Hierarchy of Measures

Answer 2

Types of Superfactors
Traits or personal disposition
Habitual acts or cognitions
Specific acts or cognitions

Question 3

Major Personality Types

Answer 3

Psychoticism
Extraversion
Neuroticism

Question 4

are characterized primarily by sociability and impulsiveness but also by jocularity, liveliness, quick-wittedness, optimism, and other traits indicative of people who are rewarded for their association with others

Answer 4

Extraverts

Question 5

are characterized by traits opposite those of extraverts. They can be described as quiet, passive, unsociable, careful, reserved, thoughtful, pessimistic, peaceful, sober, and controlled

Answer 5

Introversion

Question 6

a physiological condition that is largely inherited rather than learned

Answer 6

Cortical arousal level

Question 7

often have a tendency to overreact emotionally and to have difficulty returning to a normal state after emotional arousal

Answer 7

Neuroticism

Question 8

emotionally stable
being even-tempered, particularly in the face of challenges and threats

Answer 8

Stability

Question 9

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

Diathesis-Stress Model
OF PSYCHIATRIC ILLNESS

Question 10

often egocentric, cold, nonconforming. impulsive, hostile, aggressive, suspicious, psychopathic, and antisocial

people high on this have a high “predisposition to succumb to stress and develop a psychotic illness”

Answer 10

Psychoticism

Question 11

tend to be altruistic, highly socialized, empathic, caring cooperative, conforming, and conventional

low P scores not necessarily vulnerable to stress-related psychoses and will resist a psychotic break even in periods. of extreme stress

Answer 11

Superego

Question 12

Measuring Personality

Answer 12

Maudsley Personality Inventory
Eysenck Personality Inventory
Eysenck Personality Questionnaire

Question 13

assessed only E and N and yielded some correlation between these two factors

Answer 13

Maudsley Personality Inventory

Question 14

contams a lie (Li scale to detect faking, but more importantly, it measures extraversion and neuroticism independently with a near zero correlation between E and N

Answer 14

Eysenck Personality Inventory

Question 15

Included a psychoticism (Pl scale

Answer 15

Eysenck Personality Questionnaire

Question 16

7 to 16 years of age by Sybil B. G. Eysenck

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Junior Eysenck Personality Inventory

Question 17

A MODEL OF THE MAJOR COMPONENTS OF EYSENCK’S THEORY OF PERSONALITY

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Biological Bases of Personality

Question 18

Eysenck argued that different combinations of P. E and N relate to a large number of behaviors and processes, such as academic performance, creativity, and antisocial behavior.

He cautioned that psychologists can be misled if they do not consider the various combinations of personality dimensions

Answer 18

Personality and Behavior

Question 19

For many years, Eysenck researched the relationship between personality factors and disease. He teamed with Ronald Grossarth-Maticek to study the connection between characteristics and both cancer and cardiovascular disease and found that people with helpless/hopeless attitude were more likely to die from cancer, whereas people who reacted to frustration with anger and emotional arousal were much more likely die from cardiovascular disease

Answer 19

Personality and Disense