10: OCR Eysenck's Personality Theory

Whose criminal personality theory have we studied?

What does PEN stand for?

• practice, effort, now

• personality, ethics, nationalism

• psychoticism, extraversion, neuroticism

• perfection, every, noon

criminal personality theory - nature or nurture?

• nature

• nurture

Eysenck: criminals are likely to be higher or lower on the PEN traits?

• higher

• lower

Eysenck: extraverts react more strongly to which neurotransmitter?

• adrenaline

• dopamine

• serotonin

• oxytocin

Eysenck says those high in neuroticism have an unstable A________ N______ S_____

What is the name for the 'filter' which dictates how sensitive our brains are to external stimuli?

• random angry senses

• regulating action system

• roomy animal shed

• reticular activating system

Answer explanation

Eysenck argued that extroverts have a restrictive RAS - less stimuli pass to the cerebral cortex, so the person is driven to seek risky behaviours

Eysenck: people with high PEN scores are harder to 'condition' away from poor behaviour. Which researcher (and his dogs) first introduced classical conditioning?

Eysenck's theory - determinism or free will?

• determinism

• free will

Eysenck's theory - reductionist or holistic?

• holistic

• reductionist