PSYB30H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Collective Unconscious, Falsifiability, Analytical Psychology
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Sheldon"s physiological approach to personality: argued that body type determines personality. Endomorph (fat): sociable, fun-loving: did not use blind ratings, most later research failed to replicate, some work suggesting rela bw body type and job choice, physio personality psychologists today don"t focus on global variables like body type. Eyesenck"s pen model: recall that eysenck"s model consists of: Consistency of traits over time, despite changing environments. Extraversion-introversion: eysenck thought the main difference between introverts and extraverts had to do with arousal. He thought introverts and extraverts differed in arousal level. Or in arousal ability: eysenck thought that introverts had greater cortical arousal than extraverts, particularly in the ascending reticular activating system (aras): pathway transmitting signals from the limbic system and hypothalamus to the cortex. Aras processes cerebral aspects of emotion or emotion (e. g. , thinking about a difficult math problem: eysenck"s theory. Introverts have a higher level than extraverts of activity in the brain"s ascending reticular activating system (aras)
