Personality Theories and Theorists - Cattell, Eysenck, Gage, Bowlby

Questions:

1. A theory that defines behavioral attributes as a relatively stable predisposition to behave in a certain way is called_________________ theory.

2. The goal of trait theorists is to describe a single set of trait dimensions that can describe all ______________.

3. Raymond Cattell's goal was to develop a system by which an infinite number of different personality types could be described by a finite set of traits. Cattell's theory that included source traits and surface traits was called Cattell's_____________ ________theory.

4. Hans Eysenck was a German born British psychologist who believed that differences among people in the basic traits depicted by his theory are determined by genetic or ______________ physiological characteristics of the nervous system.

5. Han's Eysenck extended psychological research so that it also included the study of
___________________ ______________ and antisocial behaviors such as_______________________ _________________ disorder.


6. Hans Eysenck divided personalities into four domains, stable and unstable, introverted and ________________.

7. Fred Gage at Salk Institute was a neuroscientist that discovered two processes that take place in the brain known as ____________________and____________________.

8. John Bowlby was a researcher that was concerned about what would happen to children if they failed to form a nurturing bond with their caretakers. This theory is referred to as_________________ theory.

Key words:

sex drive    
attachment                                            
antisocial personality
psychotherapy                          
libido                                                      
unconscious mind
neuroscientists                      
free association       
id
unconscious         
ego
superego
organic                         
ego
inferiority
psychotherapist
defense mechanisms
redirected
questionnaires
reaction formation
Rorschach
mental
projection
male centered
humanistic projective
eight stages
statistical procedures   
individual psychology
hierarchy
abnormal psychology       
neurogenesis                   
people
extroverted                 
real
neuromigration
Thematic Apperception          
analytical                        
differ
superiority complex             
trait                                                
cognitive-social learning
16-Dimensional