BIOLOGICAL BASIS OF PERSONALITY

• Biological Causes act in such a way as to predispose an individual in certain ways to stimulation


  This stimulation may or may not occur — depending on circumstances which are entirely under environmental control
• Personality Types result from differences in Central Nervous System (CNS) functioning
• IMPLICATIONS of PERSONALITY TYPES result from difference in CNS functioning

  1. Genetic Basic of Personality
  2. Relatively Stable and Unchanging
  3. However, the Environment interacts with Biological Predispositions
• ANATOMIC LOCATIONS of ARAS and VB

  A) Visceral Brain

  B) Ascending Reticular Activating System