PSYC 2130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Heritability, Soundness, Empiricism
13 Apr 2017
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Lecture 6: trait approaches part ii hans eysenck. Eysenck was a trait psychologist with a biological orientation, his experiments were testable and there is empirical support for introversion and extroversion. He was studying during the first year of hitler"s rein so he left. Sound training in experimental psychology now called british empiricism. Eysenck"s prescription: identify the main dimensions of personality ie traits, devise a means of measuring these dimensions ie. based on scientific and statistical procedures, link major dimensions with experimental procedures. Take 1 and 2 and link in terms in a laboratory. Personality is a more or less stable and enduring organization of a person"s character (coneated behavior ie. mental faculty of willful behavior), temperament (emotional behaviour), intellect (cognitive behavior) and physique, which determines his unique adjustment to the environment . Reduce large set of observations into facts. Traits in boxes, types are the main title. Have origins in central nervous system of the cerebral cortex.
