Evaluating ToP: Comprehensive and Parsimonious

Cards (6)

  • Comprehensive
    A good theory should be able to encompass and explain a wide variety of both normal and abnormal behaviour
  • JungMyers Briggs Type Indicator
  • Eysenck
    extraversion/introversion,
    emotional stability / neuroticism
    psychoticism
  • Gray
    Reward sensitivity
    Punishment sensitivity
  • Costa & McCrae
  • Parsimony
    the theory should be economical in terms of the number of explanatory concepts it includes – all concepts included should be necessary to explain the phenomena.