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Biological approach - Coggle Diagram
Biological approach
assessments
twin studies
fMRI
adoption studies
e.g. case study can include someone getting adopted
PET
EEG
blood
genes
Hans eysenck hierachy model of personality
individuals are predisposed with certain characteristics that makes them act out in a certain way
e.g. if parent is quiet and likes solitude, child would also like solitude
psychoticism
neuroticism
introversion-extraversion
specific response level
habitual response level
trait level
supertrait
specific response level is predisposed; predisposed to act a certain way
temperament
uninhibited
slow to warm up
inhibited
difficult
easy
Gray's model
BIS
in relation to neuroticism
BAS
in relation to extraversion
like high levels of stimulation
finds out he can handle coffee
dopaminergic system
openness and extraversion
serotonergic system
neuroticisms, depression, issues with agreeableness
What are the biological mechanisms that drive our behaviour?
very deterrministic
often looks at the biological basis of the big five traits
evolutionary perspective
Natural selection
psychological mechanisms
strengths and criticisms
criticisms
very difficult to test human personality evolutionary view
critic on how all human characteristic must have a basis
lack of agreed upon model
strengths
bridged biology into personality
set some realistic parameters
empirical data
psychotherapy contributions
nothing...
extraversion