Eysenck theory

• What does Eysenck say about our personality traits?

  They are biological in origin and are based on the type of nervous system we inherit, personality traits are innate,biological 
• What’s traits does Eysenck say extroverts have ?

  -underactive nervous system

  -constantly seek stimulation

  -risk-taking behaviours 

  -hard to condition 
• What’s traits does Eysenck say neurotics have ?

  -High levels of reactivity in SNS

  -nervous,jumpy and over anxious

  -instability makes them unpredictable 
• What’s traits does Eysenck say psychotics have?

  -high levels of testerone

  -unemotional 

  -prone to aggression 
• What is the socialisation theory ?

  Personality is linked to offending behaviour via the process of socialisation
• What does the socialisation process include?

  Teaching children to become more able to delay gratification and become more socially orientated 

  -teaching them to be less selfish and teaching them right and wrong
• What are the personality in the role of socialisation? 

  -high E and N makes people harder to condition

  -less likely to learn from previous punishment e.g via anxiety responses/punishments from parents 

  -more likely to behave antisocial
• What are the evaluations of Eysenck theory?

  :) evidence to support criminal personality - compared 2017 male prisoners scores on the epq with 2422 mail control - prisoners had high epq scores in e,n and p

  :( didn’t include cultural factors and suffers from ethnocentrism 

  :( self-report so is problematic as mode cns change