The Biological Basis of Personality

by Eysenck,Hans

• ISBN13: 9781412805544
• ISBN10: 1412805546
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2006-02-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The Biological Basis of Personality represents Eysenck’s third phase of study, when he dug deeper to find biological causes underlying the psychological concepts of emotion, excitation, and inhibition – which had formed the building blocks of his earlier efforts. In this work, the causal links he postulates between personality variables and neurological and physiological discoveries establish a realistic model that takes theory out of the field of mere speculation.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Transaction Edition	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
The Two Faces of Psychology	p. 3
The Structure of Personality	p. 34
The Experimental Analysis of Personality	p. 75
Involuntary Rest Pauses (IRP) and Blocking	p. 83
Sensory Thresholds	p. 99
Formation of Conditioned Responses	p. 117
Learning	p. 126
Perceptual Phenomena	p. 135
Motor Movements	p. 153
Achievement and Aspiration	p. 163
Autonomic Reactions	p. 167
Heredity and Personality	p. 187
Activation, Arousal, and Emotion	p. 226
Personality and Drugs	p. 263
Personality and Brain Damage-C. B. Blakemore	p. 319
Epilogue	p. 340
References	p. 347
Subject Index	p. 391
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