PSYC 2030 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Twin, Hans Eysenck, Judith Rich Harris
10 Dec 2016
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Week 7 personality trait approaches pt. 2 (hans eysenck) 2 orientations in psychology ( correlational and experimental: correlational (existing relationships, variations among organisms, no control of variation) Experimental (functional relationships, variation among treatments, control of variation) Hans is a trait psychologist w/ a biological psychologist. He went into psychology by accident--originally interested in physics but university had no room for him so he went into psychology. Received training in british empiricism + experimental psychology. Eysenck stated that psychology has 2 orientations: experimental *concerned with case effect relationships *preoccupied with group data, very little concern for individual diff. within a group concentrated on diff. *rogers shephard --big contribution to experimental psychology with his object identification test--tests person"s ability. Experimental psych. are not interested in variation within a group of people, not interested in individual variation, e. psych. correlation; psych interested in variability individually, --theres no control over that variation. Eysenck was one of first psychologists to suggest these two orientations be integrated,
