PSYC 2740 Study Guide - Winter 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Neuroticism, Extraversion And Introversion, Impulsivity

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Chapter 2: 4 sources of data collected by personality psychologists, self-report- ourselves, duh, structured responses are set, dichotomous key, likert, unstructured responses are not set limitations: Chapter 7: a physiological approach to personality, theoretical bridge, specific conditions, loud parties, personality trait introversion, psychological response, overstimulation, physiological indicator. Induced stress in 2 groups and measured skin conductance. Indivs with and without a history in self injury: stress induction=matching game, failure feedback given even when response. Increased frontal brain activation to negative images: extraversion. Increased frontal brain activation to positive images: other measures, biochemical analyses of blood and saliva. Immune system functioning: antibodies, hormones, testosterone, cortisol, neurotransmitters, serotonin, dopamine, mao, physiologically based theories of personality, extraversion-introversion, early theory, arousal level of brain, aided by ascending reticular activating system, open aras, high resting cortical arousal. Introversion: closed aras, low resting cortical arousal, extraversion, revised theory, arousability of nervous system, difference not in baseline arousability level but in their arousal response, monotonous, boring task.

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