PSYC 2130 Lecture Notes - J. B. S. Haldane, Hans Eysenck, Experimental Psychology

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

Document Summary

Lecture 6: hans eysenck he had been influential in personality because his work has been the most cited work in all of psychology and very comprehensive. He was a clinician in moseley hospital in the uk. He found that no treatment is no difference than psychoanalytical therapy. Like many of the traits theorist he worked in constructing very clear measure of his theoretical concepts. There is a lot of experimental support for his ideas. Background he was born and raised by a very theatrical family. He was not interested in psychology, he like chemistry. He left germany because in the 1939s in order for one to be a scholar you had to join the nazi party. So left and heading to the uk and because everything was full he had to join psychology. At the university of london there psychologists such as spearmen, pearson, jbs haldane, while he was there.