PSYCH 2B03 Lecture Notes - Eysenck Personality Questionnaire, Psychoticism, Extraversion And Introversion
18 Mar 2013
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Eysenck"s pen theory precursor to modern trait theory. Eysenck"s background from germany, moved to france as he was very opposed of the nazis and didn"t want to join the ss eventually ended up in uk, studied psychology though he wanted to go for physics. Wrote a lot of stuff, one of the earliest critics of psychoanalysis took on very controversial positions valued scientific approach. Epi-genetics what genes you have in your genome are irrelevant, its important which genes are actually doing something. Measures only extraversion, neuroticism (which was the only two dimensions present at the point it was established) Do you prefer to have few but special friends? (introversion/extroversion question) Do other people think of you as very lively? (introversion/extroversion question) Do you get attacks of shaking or trembling? (neuroticism) Eysenck personality questionnaire (epq) mid 1970s, expanded version. Do you enjoy hurting people you love? (psychoticism) Do you worry a lot about catching diseases? (psychoticism)
