Psychologial Explanations: Eysenck

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What kind of research did Eysenck do?
personality and intelligence research
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How did he believe behaviours could be represented?
Along two dimensions:
introversion-extraversion
and neuroticism-stability
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What did he later add?
Third dimension: psychoticsm-sociability
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What did he believe was biological about personality?
personality is biological, come through the nervous system
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What are the features of extravert personality type?
underactive nervous system, constantly seek excitement, risk-taking activities
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What are the features of neurotic personality type?
nervous system easily triggered by threats, overanxious and unpredictable
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What are the features of psychotic personality type?
high levels of testosterone, agressive, cold
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What is the criminal personality type?
highly neurotic-highly extravert-highly psychotic
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How did Eysenck measure the criminal personality?
Eysenck Personality Questionaire (EPQ)
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How does this questionaire work?
locates the respondants along the E, N, P dimensions to determine their personality type.
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Who's evidence supports this theory?
Eysenck and Eysenck
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How many prisoners did they use in their study?
2070 prisoners compared to a control group
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What did they do in their research?
had the prisoners take the EPQ
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What were the findings?
On measures of extraversion, neuroticism and psychoticism, prisoners scored higher than the control group
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How is it criticised for being too simplistic?
Theory suggests personality is stable over a lifetime. One criminal persoanlity type.
Moffitt- personality traits alone cannot say how long offending would go on for, weather someone will be a 'career offender'
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Who studied how cultural factors affect this theory?
Bartol and Holanchock
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Who did they use in their study?
Hispanic and African-american offenders in a maximum security prison in New York
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What did they find?
They were less extraverted than the non-offender control group, (not what Eysenck's theory predicts)
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