Personality and temperament
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- Personality
- PERSONALITY - the thoughts and feelings that make a person unique
- TEMPERAMENT - the genetic part of personality
- STUDIES
- Thomas, Chess and Birch (1977) - 'easy', 'difficult', 'slow to warm up'.
- Buss and Plomin (1984) - monozygic and dyzygic twims
- Kagan and Snidman (1991) - longitudinal study (long-term study) to see if temperament stays the same throughout life.
- STUDIES
- TEMPERAMENT - the genetic part of personality
- Measuring personality
- Eysenck's Personality Inventory (EPI)
- The scale that links neuroticism-stability to extroversion-introversion
- Eynsenck's Personality Questionnaire (EPQ)
- Adds psychoticism as another dimension to the EPI.
- STUDIES
- Eynseck (1947) - soldiers taking questionnaire
- Eysenck's Personality Inventory (EPI)
- Antisocial Behaviour Disorder (ASPD)
- ASPD makes people less likely to follow the social norms and be inconsiderate of others.
- CHARACTERISTICS OF ASPD
- Decietful
- Impulsive
- Aggressive
- Irresponsible and careless about safety
- Insensitivity
- WHAT CAUSES ASPD?
- Biological causes
- ASPD could be caused by abnormalities in the amygdala and the prefrontal cortex.
- STUDIES
- Raine (2000) - scanned 21 people with ASPD and 34 without.
- Situational causes
- ASPD could be caused by socioeconomic factors (e.g. poor housing, low family income), quality of life (including parenting) and access to a good education.
- STUDIES
- Farrington (1995) - longitudinal study on how socioeconomic factors affect ASPD.
- Elander (2000) - twins with childhood disorders and interviewed them 10-25 years later.
- Biological causes
- PERSONALITY - the thoughts and feelings that make a person unique
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