Measuring Personality & Biological Bases

Maudsley Personality Inventory (MPI)

MEASUREMENT:

assessed only E & N with correlation between the two

Eysenck Personality Inventory (EPI)

MEASUREMENT:

revision of MPI + lie scale

lie scale

MEASUREMENT:

used in EPI to detect faking

Eysenck Personality Inventory (EPI)

MEASUREMENT:

measures E and N independently = no correlation between the two

Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ)

MEASUREMENT:

added psychoticism

Eysenck Personality Questionnaire-Revised (EPQ-Revised)

MEASUREMENT:

done to make it less biased than original EPQ

antecedents

BIOLOGICAL BASES:

genetic and biological

consequences

BIOLOGICAL BASES:

include such experimental variables and social variables

distal antecedents

BIOLOGICAL BASES:

genetic personality determinants

distal antecedents

BIOLOGICAL BASES:

DNA

proximal antecedents

BIOLOGICAL BASES:

limbic system arousal

proximal antecedents

BIOLOGICAL BASES:

biological intermediaries

psychometric trait constellations

BIOLOGICAL BASES:

PEN

proximal consequences

BIOLOGICAL BASES:

conditioning, sensitivity, vigilance, perception, memory, reminiscence

proximal consequences

BIOLOGICAL BASES:

experimental studies

distal consequences

BIOLOGICAL BASES:

sociability, criminality, creativity, psychopathology, sexual behavior

distal consequences

BIOLOGICAL BASES:

social behavior

personality

has genetic determinants that indirectly shape biological intermediaries

biological intermediaries

help mold PEN

PEN

contributes to a wide variety of laboratory learnings and social behaviors