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  • Personality
    • Normal personality types
      • Eysencks personality theory
        • cortical arousal theory
          • extraverts have lower level of arousal so therefore need greater stimulation from the environment
          • introverts have higher innate levels of arousal and therefore need little stimulation
      • Grays reinforcement sensitivity theory
        • Behavioural inhibiting system (BIS)
          • avoids punishment and reward lacking behaviours, anxiety response of fear to avoid negative consequences
            • Introverts - intrinsically motivated
        • Behavioural activating system (BAS)
          • engages in reward seeking behaviours in order to  compensate for low levels of arousal
            • Extraverts - 'easily bored'
      • the Big Five
        • OCEAN
          • Openess
            • openess to experience and engaging in new activities
          • Conscientiousnous
            • productiveness and self motivation
          • Extraversion
            • outgoing behaviours motivated through external environment
          • Agreeableness
            • the tendency to be nurturing and friendly
          • Neuroticism
            • the tendency to feel negative emotions
      • Quantitative genetics
        • Measures extraversion and neuroticism have a higher concordance rate in MZ twins
      • jung and Myers
        • measured  dichotomies
        • judging-percieving
        • thinking-feeling
        • sensing-intuiative
        • extraversion- introversion
      • creativity
        • The Big  Five
          • Originality,fluency, flexibility, elaboration and appropriateness
      • emotional intelligence
        • Emotional trait personality
          • based on what we perceive our emotional intelligence is
      • Cattell
        • cardinal  traits: attitudes and values
        • central traits: stable over lifetime
        • secondary traits:are dependent on situational factors
    • Abnormal personality types
      • defining abnormality
        • Statistical deviance
          • how far Standard deviation deviates from the mean
          • 2 SD above or below the mean seen as abnormal
        • Social norms
          • how far behaviour  deviates form the social norm which is what is expected in society
        • Maladaptiveness
          • how much this abnormality interferes with everyday functioning
      • Related to mood
        • Histrionic
          • overdramatic and the need to be the centre of attention
            • Extravesion
          • oversensitive to criticism
        • Narcissistic
          • feeling of self importance and is sensitive to criticism
            • Neuroticism and Intraversion
          • Controlling
            • Conscientiousness
        • Borderline
          • emotionally unstable and feelings of emptiness
          • difficulty forming relationships
        • Anti-social personality disorder
          • lack of empathy,charming and callous
          • High on neuroticism and extraversion
      • Removed form reality
        • Paranoid
          • mistrust of others and have their guards up
          • difficulty to form close relationships
            • Neuroticism
        • Schizoid
          • all of and isolate themselves
            • Introversion
          • in their own world
        • Schizotypical
          • schizophrenic like symptoms -delusionsand unconventional thoughts
          • difficult to form close and stable relationships with others
            • Neuroticism
      • Related to anxiety
        • Dependent
          • dependent on other to make decisions
          • child like characteristics
        • Avoidant
          • avoid social interaction
            • Neuroticism
          • fear of rejection
          • sensitive
        • Obsessive compulsive disorder
          • perfection at the expense of leisure
          • controlling
            • conscientiousness
    • Personality  are stable patterns of characteristics and attitudes that distinguish one individual from another

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