Personality
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- Created on: 06-07-17 09:08
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- Personality
- Thomas, Chess and Birch -
- Responding of environment remain stable throughout life
- 133 children from infancy to early adulthood. Their behaviour and parents were interviewed- asked about routine and reactions for change.
- Fell into three types - Easy, difficult, slow to warm up
- Easy- happy, flexible and regular
- Difficult- demanding, inflexible, cried a lot
- Slow to Warm up- didnt respond well to new environment but once adapted they were usually happy
- Fell into three types - Easy, difficult, slow to warm up
- 133 children from infancy to early adulthood. Their behaviour and parents were interviewed- asked about routine and reactions for change.
- Responding of environment remain stable throughout life
- Personality- Thoughts, feelings and behaviours that make the individual unique
- Antisocial Personality Disorder
- A condition in which the individual does not use socially acceptable behaviour or consider the rights of others
- Characteristics of APD
- not following the norms and laws of society
- impulsive and not planning ahead
- careless about their safety and other peoples safety
- lacking remorse by being indifferent to, or finding reasons for, hurting, mistreating or stealing from others
- Characteristics of APD
- Raine et al
- Support theory that abnormalities in the prefrontal cortex cause ADP
- Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) was used to study 21 men with APD and control group of 34 healthy men. They were all volunteers
- APD group had 11 per cent reduction in prefrontal grey matter compared with the controlled group
- ADP is caused by reduction in the brain's grey matter
- APD group had 11 per cent reduction in prefrontal grey matter compared with the controlled group
- Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) was used to study 21 men with APD and control group of 34 healthy men. They were all volunteers
- Support theory that abnormalities in the prefrontal cortex cause ADP
- Situational causes of APD
- Socioeconomic factors including low family income and poor housing
- Quality of life at home including poor parenting
- Educational factors including low school achievements and leaving school at an early age
- A condition in which the individual does not use socially acceptable behaviour or consider the rights of others
- Antisocial Personality Disorder
- Temperament- The genetic component of personality
- Buss and Plomin(1984)
- Test ideas that temperament is innate
- 228 pairs of monozygotic twins and 172 pairs of dizygotic twins- rated temperament of the twins when they were 5
- looked for behaviours of- emotionality-how strong the child`s emotional response was
- Activity- how energetic the child was
- Sociability- how much the child wanted to be with other people
- Activity- how energetic the child was
- closer correlation between scores of monozygotic twins than between the scores of dizygotic twins
- looked for behaviours of- emotionality-how strong the child`s emotional response was
- 228 pairs of monozygotic twins and 172 pairs of dizygotic twins- rated temperament of the twins when they were 5
- Test ideas that temperament is innate
- Buss and Plomin(1984)
- Neurotic- anxious
- Eysenck
- Personality type between people
- 700 servicemen completed a questionnaire- analysed results using statistical techniques (factor analysis)
- two dimensions of personality : extroversion - introversion- neutroticism- stability
- Everyone was placed along these two dimensions of personality. Most people lie in the middle of the scale
- two dimensions of personality : extroversion - introversion- neutroticism- stability
- 700 servicemen completed a questionnaire- analysed results using statistical techniques (factor analysis)
- Personality type between people
- Eysenck
- Introvert- quite
- Extrovert- sociable
- Personality questionnaire- introversion, extroversion and neuroticism
- Personality- series of yes and no questions
- Thomas, Chess and Birch -
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