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After studying Chapter 7, you should be able to
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discuss Sheldon's physiological approach to personality, including brief discussions of the three body types and the personality traits with which Sheldon argued they are associated; |
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describe the key physiological measures used by modern personality researchers, including electrodermal activity, cardiovascular activity, brain activity, and chemical analyses of blood and saliva; |
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discuss Eysenck's original and revised theories about individual differences in extraversion-introversion, and be able to briefly define the characteristics of someone who is high on extraversion or high on introversion; |
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review some of the key findings generated by work inspired by Eysenck's theory; |
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discuss Gray's Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory, including a discussion of how Gray's theory is similar to and different from Eysenck's theory; |
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describe the personality dimension of sensation seeking as originally presented by Zuckerman, including a discussion of how Zuckerman used Hebb's theory of optimal level of arousal to generate his theory about sensation seeking; |
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discuss some of the key correlates of sensations seeking, according to recent work by Zuckerman and others; |
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discuss recent research and theory on the relationships between neurotransmitters and personality traits, including a discussion of Cloninger's Tridimensional Model of personality; |
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describe the personality dimension of morningness-eveningness, and discuss identified relationships of this dimension with circadian rhythms; |
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describe the defining features of temporal isolation studies, including why they are conducted and what they have revealed; |
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discuss some of the key practical consequences of individual differences in morningness-eveningness; |
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and discuss recent work suggesting that asymmetry in frontal brain activity may predict affective style, as well as the identified relationships between brain asymmetry, and personality and affective traits. |