openness to experience Flashcards
(18 cards)
what is meant by low openness to experience
literal, concrete and orthodox and beliefs.
high scores on openness to experience…
metaphorical prefer arts and unusual beliefs.
what is DeYoung’s plasticity?
argued that both extraversion and openness reflect a general tendency towards exploration.
openness (DeYoung’ Plasticity).
the cognitive engagement with perceptual and sensory information and ideas through reasoning.
openness is associated with…
artisitic creativity whereas intellect is strongly with scienific creativity
what is crystalised knowledge?
the overall store of knowledge
what is fluid knowledge?
our capacity to access reasoning in the moment.
what is the semantic distance task?
how close in meaning are stripe and tree? found that people high in openness tend to see more distant meanings as connected.
evidence of an association between openness to experience and…
psychoticism and symptoms of schizotypal personality disorder.
Santosa et al 2007’s study was…
compared performance on Barron-Welsh scale with different mental illnesses. inidividuals with bipolar and creative scored significantly higher.
kyaga et al 2013 found what about creative professions
not more likely to suffer from these psychiatric disordrs than controls. there were associates with being an author increased risk of mental illness.
autism and creativity- Pennisi et al 2010 found…
autistic people showed inhibited fluency and flexibility but high level of detail and originality.
what is the mad-genius paradix; Simonton 2014:
creative individuals exhibit better mental health but are at higher risk of mental illness than the less creati e- lotka’s law.
what is latent inhibition
pre exposure to CS can hinder later conditioning involving that stimulus.
reduced latent inhibition is associated with…
susceptibility or acute-phase schizophrenia in psyhcotic prone individuals. also with increased openness to experience and creative achievement.
carson, peterson and higgin 2003 study
highly creative individuals access to greater stimuli. asked to pay attention to everytime they hear nonsense syllables and white noise bursts. Then in test phase asked to see if there is a rule, either pre exposure or none. Those pre exposed tool longer to catch on because they phased out the white noise bursts.
link between dopamine and exploratory behaviour…
reduced latent inhibition is associated with increased dopaminergic activity.
DeYoung and colleagues proposed that openness is linked to…
dopaminergic neurons that code for salience which is activated by positive and negative information.
