PS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Perceived Control, Learned Helplessness, Anxiety Disorder
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Thousands of papers and over 40 books. Fundamental difference is level of cortical arousal. Extroverts need excitement and have low resting cortical arousal. Introverts have high resting cortical arousal: neuroticism and stability. Argues this was largely physiological or biological: psychoticism and conscious. Totally rational, nothing is empirically derived (no lab studies) Looked through a dictionary and came up with 200 clusters of related word became his personality traits: cardinal traits. Very few have these: central triaits. We all have these: secondary traits. Music preferences, ice-cream preferences : perception know where we come/where we are going, empathy. Asks questions such as how do we stay health under greater and greater stress. After following 300 male and female execs. She found that people who could resist the stress have hardiness. Believe in the value of what they are doing. Involve themselves deeply in work and family relationships. Confront life rather than shrink from it: challenge.
