A Model for Personality

"H. J. Eysenck This book is not an introduction to personality research, it is not a textbook, and above all it is not a model of personality. The title, A Modelfor Personality, was chosen on purpose to indicate that we are here concerned with a discussion of how models in this field ought to be constructed, what their functions were, and whether such models or paradigms could with advantage be produced at this stage of development. One particular aspect of personality, extraversionƯ introversion (E), has been chosen to exemplify the desiderata which emerge from such a discussion. It is not suggested that personality and E are synonymous - merely that this particular dimension is perhaps better known than any other, has had more experimental work done on it than any other and has acquired a better theoretical substructure, and more links with genetics and physiology, than any other. Hence it seems most likely to serve as an example of how a satisfactory model of personality might ultimately be constructed, i. e. by analogy with E. Other dimensions of personality, such as neuroticism-stability or psycho ticƯ ism-superego functioning, are mentioned in the discussion, but only when they overlap or interrelate with E. The book uses E as an example to illustrate the way in which a model of personality can be constructed, but it is in no way a summary of all that is known about E"--Font no determinada Front Matter....Pages I-XII General Features of the Model....Pages 1-37 The Psychophysiology of Extraversion and Neuroticism....Pages 38-64 A Survey of the Effects of Brain Lesions upon Personality....Pages 65-87 The Genetic and Environmental Architecture of Psychoticism, Extraversion and Neuroticism....Pages 88-122 Personality and Conditioning....Pages 123-168 Learning, Memory and Personality....Pages 169-209 Personality and Social Behaviour....Pages 210-245 A Critique of Eysenck’s Theory of Personality....Pages 246-276 Epilogue....Pages 277-282 Back Matter....Pages 283-287