01:830:338 Lecture 6: Personality Psychology lecture 6
28 Feb 2018
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E. g. , severe vs. moderate intellectual disability: facilitate environmental interventions. E. g. , tailor environment for thriving: eysenck"s theory of the nervous system temperament, personality & nervous system arousal, nervous system (brain) regulation of sensory stimuli. Understimulation extraversion: nervous system (brain) regulation of emotion. Emotional stability well controlled nervous system. Emotional instability aka, neuroticism very reactive nervous systems. Emotional stability: sensation-seeking and addiction, individual differences in sensation-seeking and proneness to addiction, some people seek out more stimulation and may be biologically predisposed to seek out certain environments. Environments might be dangerous or stressful: cocaine and dopamine (neurotransmitter, some sensation seekers might have low dopamine levels seek cocaine for stimulation cocaine increases dopamine altered personality, dopamine implicated in. Absence of emotion, motivation, sociability: serotonin (neurotransmitter) and prozac, inhibits behavioral & emotional impulses. Helps us avoid excess worry, anger, sensitivity. Low serotonin is associated with decreased mood.
