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This six page report discusses the work and models created by Hans Eysenck (1916-1997) and Raymond Cattell (1905-1998). Each developed specific theories regarding human personality. Eysenck’s is best expressed in the Eysenck Personality Inventory (EPI) while Cattell’s 16PF or Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire serves as the best representation of his work on personality. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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the attitudes and beliefs that have shaped who they are and how they interact with others in their world. Models such as those presented by Raymond Cattell and Hans Eysenck
allow researchers, social scientists and others to use meta-analytic techniques to examine the relations between individual and broadly-defined behaviors and an established structural model of personality. In numerous situations, it
is important to understand the workings of an individuals personality in order to determine what they may or may not do and what they may be capable of.
Hans J. Eysenck Dr. Hans J. Eysenck (1916-1997) was prolific in terms of his research, study, and writing regarding the characteristics and components of human personality. Ree (1999) makes note
of the fact that Eysenck published 61 books, more than 1,000 journal articles, and was the founding editor of the journal "Personality and Individual Differences." His numerous models such as
the Eysenck Personality Inventory (EPI) and the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ) address his biological theory of personality which may then be used to account for various personality disorders. Maltby and
Day explain that within Eysencks personality theory, there are three specific categories or dimensions of personality: "psychoticism (solitary, troublesome, cruel, and inhumane traits), neuroticism (anxious, worrying, and moody traits), and
extraversion (sociable, sensation-seeking, carefree, and optimistic traits)" (pp. 119). These dimensions form the foundation of his three-factor model or PEN (psychoticism - extraversion - neuroticism) model. Regardless of whether or
not one agrees with his findings and his theories, Eysencks groundbreaking research ultimately resulted in the development of measurable personality dimensions and wide range of innovations in behavioral therapy.
Eysencks work promotes the idea that there is an undeniable biological basis for introversion-extraversion: introverts have higher levels of activity in the cortico-reticular loop, and thus are chronically
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