AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The two initial dimensions of Eysenck’s theory of personality, extraversion and neuroticism, are also common to Robert McCrae and Paul Costa’s Five-Factor Model (McCrae and Costa, 1987).

Detailed explanation-2: -Eysenck’s theory focused on temperament-innate, genetically based personality differences. He believed personality is largely governed by biology, and he viewed people as having two specific personality dimensions: extroversion vs. introversion and neuroticism vs. stability.

Detailed explanation-3: -Psychoanalytic, humanistic, trait perspective and behaviorist theory are the four main personality theories.

Detailed explanation-4: -Psychologists Hans and Sybil Eysenck were personality theorists ([link]) who focused on temperament, the inborn, genetically based personality differences that you studied earlier in the chapter. They believed personality is largely governed by biology.