PSYCH 2B03 Lecture Notes - Reticular Formation, Psychoticism, Trait Theory
12 Sep 2013
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Dominant approach to personality in research aspect. Eysenck: pioneer of trait theories, but his theory not trait based. Dates from 1940s/1950s and became significant in late 1950s/1960s and is extremely influential today constructs from theory has shaped ideas of trait based theorists: concepts of extroversionist, neuroticism and psychoticism in trait based theories today. Believed it is important for personality theories to consider personality at different levels of analysis theory span different levels. Necessary to analyze at number of levels of abstraction from specific to most general four levels of analysis individual acts ( most basic: habits lowest level consists of individual behaviours/thoughts. Groups of individual acts that occur together traits factors sets of habits that are intercorrelated. Extraversion/ introversion: borrowed from jung intercorrelated traits sociability, activity, assertiveness, sensation seeking, dominance, venturesomeness, carefree-ness ( high on extra version end of dimension, extroversion.
