PSYB30H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Hans Eysenck, Extraversion And Introversion, Reticular Formation
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Chapter 5 five basic traits in the brain and behavior . Whereas people expect research scientist and academics, are more introverted: people who are especially outgoing, lively, energetic, enthusiastic, warm, gregarious, and sociable may gravitate toward activities and roles that capitalize on their characteristics. Social behavior and cognitive performance: human beings evolved to live in groups, we may describe some people as outgoing and sociable whereas others as shy , Inhibited , withdrawn , taciturn and quiet: psychoanalytic clinician carl jung (1936/1971) wrote that extraverts direct their psychological energy outward to the social world. Whereas introverts direct it inward private thoughts and fantasy. Hans eysenck (1952, 1967) extravert is outgoing, sociable, and enthusiastic, but also somewhat impulsive and handless. They are better at detection of railway signal stimuli, faster mail-coding task and better short-term recall of television news broadcast: extraverts tend to show a performance for speed over accuracy, whereas introverts focus more on accuracy over speed.
