PSYC 2130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Hans Eysenck, Roger Shepard, Experimental Psychology

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2130
• Professor: Krista Philips

Document Summary

Scholar who addressed very broad range phenomenon in psychology. Wrote on a very range of topics such as, hysteria and smoking. Not a person who was limited in interests. A trait theorist with a biological orientation. He worked diligently to constructing precise measures of his concepts, cannot say the same for most of the neo- He also devised many tests that are widely used to assess major dimensions of personality. His theories were precisely stated and most part were testable. His ideas about personality conformed to the modern principles that constitute a good theory. A good theory which lead itself to empirical verification. There is considerable empirical support for many of his assertions especially his ideas of behavioral differences introversion and extroversion. Many of his ideas about precise brain mechanisms were harder to test but many of his theoretical predictions regarding sociability have received a enormous amount of empirical support.