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Jayanni Pech

Han Eysenck Theory:

Han Eysenck was born in Berlin, Germany. He is widely known since he developed the theory of personality. Eysenck’s theory is based on physiology and genetics. Although he is a behaviorist who considers learned habits of great importance, he considers personality differences as growing out of our genetic inheritance. Therefore his main interest is in, what is usually called temperament. And yet, his descriptions of various types of people, and of how they can be understood physically, ring particularly true. Most parents, teachers, and child psychologists will more than support the idea that kids have built-in differences in their personalities that begin at birth (and even before), and which no amount of re-education will touch. Hans Eysenck was the first psychologist to make this trait or temperament business into something more mathematical,Eysenck's original research found two main dimensions of temperament: neurotic ism and extraversion-introversion these two personality dimensions, were described in his 1947 book.

Eysenck named, Neuroticism, the dimension that ranges from normal, fairly calm and collected people to one’s that tend to be quite “nervous.” His research showed that these nervous people tended to suffer more frequently from a variety of “nervous disorders” we call neuroses. Considering that he was not saying that people who score high on the neuroticism scale are necessarily neurotics; only that they are more susceptible to neurotic problems. Eysenck was convinced that, since everyone in his data-pool fit somewhere on this dimension of normality-to-neuroticism, this was a true temperament, that this was a genetically-based, physiologically-supported dimension of personality. The second dimension is extraversion-introversion, he means something very similar to what Jung meant by the same terms, and something very similar to our common-sense understanding of them: Shy, quiet people “versus” out-going, even loud people. This dimension is found in everyone, but the physiological explanation is a bit more complex. Eysenck hypothesized explanation that extroversion-introversion is a matter of the balance of “inhibition” and “excitation” in the brain itself. Someone who is extroverted, he hypothesized, has good, strong inhibition: When confronted by traumatic stimulation, such as a car crash, the extravert’s brain inhibits itself, which means that it becomes “numb,” you might say, to the trauma, and therefore will remember very little of what happened an example of that was when I was eight years old I had a car accident and because of such fright I sometimes ask myself if it really happened, since I barley remember what really happen that day. is the tendency to look to the outside world, especially people, for one's pleasures. Extravert's are usually outgoing and they enjoy social activities, but they don't like to be alone.

The introvert, on the other hand, has poor or weak inhibition referring to a tendency to prefer the world inside oneself. The more obvious aspects of introversion are shyness, distaste for social functions, and a love of privacy. That if the person does something wrong or shameful, he/she might totally remember morning and might be shy to come out of his home. Luckily up to now I haven’t had an introvert experience only that sometimes I really like to have privacy at certain times. The Third dimension, Psycoticism was later added, after studying individuals suffering from mental illness. Individuals who are high on this trait tend to have difficulty dealing with reality and may be antisocial, hostile, non-empathetic and manipulative.

In conclusion to this research I would like to say that I choose this theory because I agree with Hans Eysenck that personality traits are since it is logically related to what human behaviors are, everyone have different reactions towards different situations and experiences.