PSYC 4370 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14 & 24: Authoritarian Personality, Hawthorne Effect, Personnel Selection
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Applied psychology tends to imply a (cid:498)pure psychology(cid:499) the findings are then problems as the (cid:498)minds(cid:499) grew from those of children to adults to criminals to applied. It rose as a discipline when society had a need to solve practical behavior athletes. Many disciplines have now gotten blurred in regards to those that are considered pure (e. g. developmental psychology). Lombroso said that the criminal physically displayed distinctive atavistic, a greater tendency to asymmetrical features, lack of earlobes and for women greater hair and warts. Others tried to trace the inheritance through single family studies. The 1920s saw a growth in regards to juvenile delinquency. Furthermore, eysensek postulated two major dimensions of personality variation: extraversion and neuroticism. Thus, because those who are neurotic require a greater amount to become emotionally aroused compared to extraverts who are already high emotional and unstable they are more likely to become criminals under the right environment and social circumstances.