PSYC 2130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Hans Eysenck, Roger Shepard, Empiricism
28 Dec 2015
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Entire lecture on hans eysenck and his work. His work was incredibly comprehensive, addressing a broad range of normal and abnormal phenomena. He wrote over 23 books on smoking behaviour, anxiety, neuroses, and various other ideas. Eysenck was a trait theorist with a biological basis. Worked really hard to construct good tests to assess major dimensions of personality, making personality theories largely testable (unlike freudian and neo-freudian ideas). Many of his central ideas have received a great deal of empirical support, especially work on introverts and extroverts (this is less true for his theories that pinpointed brain areas connected to other psychological phenomena). Background: born in germany, family involved in theatre. When went to university n 1934, told could not join until signed up for ss. England to study physics, but program full and only psychology had room. Haldane (evolutionary psychology); all big names in experimental psychology. Empiricism (experimental method) was popular research approach used.
