PSY230H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Bisexuality, Schizophrenia, Cinderella Effect

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY230H1
• Professor: Dan Dolderman

Document Summary

Genetic effects through temperament: pavlov: classical conditioning also interested in variation of nervous systems in a population, we"re born with a certain temperament: stable individual differences in emotional reactivity. Activity, emotionality, sociability, impulsivity: four basic aspects of temperament: Eysenck"s model of nervous system temperament: eysenck particularly involved in extroversion and introversion, e/i covers both activity and sociability dimensions of temperament, eysenck related the dimensions right back to the central nervous system. Introverts have been shown to be slower to get used to sensory stimuli: stimulation bothers them; gets on their nerves (lol, extroverts generally show less brain arousal at rest. Jeffrey gray incorporated modern neuroscience into the physiological model of personality: emphasizes observation and learning for survival, involves understanding that nervous systems evolved to respond to danger but also that reward/punishment is important for behaviour. Involves to biological systems: bis behavioural inhibition system responding to new situations and punishments.