PSYB30H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Oral Stage, Superego Records, 18 Months
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Psyb30 lecture 6 physiological approach & psychoanalytic approach to. Sheldon"s physiological approach to personality: body types personality. Failed to be replicated by other researchers. Some work also suggest relationship between body type and job choice (may be due to stereotypes) Physiological personality psychologists today don"t focus on global variables such as body type. Eysenck"s pen model: extraversion, neuroticism, psychoticism, biological basis based on: Consistency of traits over time, despite the change of environments. Moderate heritability: difference between introversion and extraversion arousal. Introverts: greater cortical arousal than extraverts, particularly in the ascending reticular activating system (aras): pathway transmitting signals from the limbic system and hypothalamus to the cortex. Processed cerebral aspects of emotions or emotion regulation. People strive to keep aras activity at optimal level: e. g. thinking about a difficult math problem. Introverts work to decrease and avoid stimulation. Measures preferred stimulation levels in introverts and extraverts and effects on arousal and performance.
