PSY 805 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Big Five Personality Traits, Type A And Type B Personality Theory, Pupillary Response

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 805
• Professor: Alexandra Fiocco

Document Summary

Personality is part of the process of stress (input > process > output: moderates the relationship between health and outcomes. Type a personality (competitiveness, time urgent, hostile and aggressive); versus. Type b personality (relaxed, one thing at a time, expression of feelings) Type d stands for (cid:498)distressed,(cid:499) high negative affectivity and social inhibition, use of destructive anger rumination: at risk for hypertension, chd, low quality of life, high stress reactivity. A limitation of the (cid:498)type(cid:499) model include that there is no spectrum or opportunity to have traits from both (black or white vs. continuum) The big 3 super-traits include psychoticism (non-conformity, social deviance, aggressive, egocentric), extraversion (sociable, lively, care-free), and neuroticism (tense, irrational, low self-esteem, guilty, depressed) Underlying differences in biological temperament optimal level of arousal (extroversion = preference for more stimulating environments, introversion = preference for less stimulating environments) High neuroticism linked with increased amygdala activity (fearful stimuli)