PSY 20673 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Eysenck Personality Questionnaire, Hans Eysenck, Psychoticism
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Eysenck: biologically based factor theory: overview of factor and trait theories. Hans eysenck and others have used factor analysis to identify traits, that is, relatively permanent dispositions of people. Eysenck extracted only three general factors,which yielded three general bipolar extraversion/introversion, neuroticism/stability, and psychoticism/superego. factors or types: Hans j. eysenck was born in berlin in 1916, but as a teenager, he moved to london to escape nazi tyranny. Eysenck was trained in the psychometrically oriented psychology department of the university of london, from which he received a bachelor"s degree in 1938 and a. Eysenck was perhaps the most prolific writer of any psychologist in the world, and his books and articles often stirred worldwide controversy. The personality theory of hans eysenck has strong psychometric and biological components. Hans eysenck (1) was more likely to theorize before collecting and analyzing data; (2) extracted fewer factors; (3) used a wider variety of approaches to gather data: criteria for identifying factors.
