PSYB30H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Hans Eysenck, Conventionalism, Negative Affectivity
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Neurotic cascade: five factors that work together to precipitate the cascade of negative feelings that individuals high in neuroticism regularly experience. Five factors: hyperactivity, differential exposure to negative events, differential appraisal, mood spillover. Inability to cope with negative events from the past. Threshold of transmarginal inhibition: further increases in stimulation that lead to paradoxical decreases in responding; (e. g. , point at which dog began to inhibit responses to increased stimulation in pavlov"s study). Optimal level of arousal: point at which arousal leads to maximal pleasure and optimal responding. Dysthymics: introverted neurotics; depressant drugs (decrease arousal) cause introverts to behave more like extraverts. Hysterics: extroverted neurotics; stimulant drugs (increase arousal) cause extraverts to behave more like introverts. Lemon drop test: laboratory procedure designed by eysenck to test sensitivity to arousing stimuli, wherein lemon juice is placed on the tongue of participants and resultant salivation is measured. Introverts tend to salivate more to small amounts of lemon juice, indicating greater arousability.
