Psychoticism

Discuss the claim by Eysenck and his supporters that personality is fundamental to all areas of psychology. Hans Eysenck is largely known for his broad yet distinct outlook on psychology and the branches that come under its name, one of his extremes being that of personality. This may explain the reason for his set of followers and devotees, one such as Philip J. Corr who in his article (Corr, P. J. (2007). Personality and psychology: Hans Eysenck 's unifying themes. The Psychologist, 20,…

Dexter Morgan, from Showtime’s series “Dexter” is played by Michael C. Hall, who plays a blood splatter analyst and is a gripping character because he’s also a serial killer. He spends his days working for the homicide division, but is a serial killer who kills other killers by night. Dexter has many personality layers. He thinks cleverly, he solves problems easily, and he balances both sides of being a married father and a psychopath. He, at first, seems like a normal person, who lives a normal…

This essay will discuss the psychology of evil and how people are not born evil but they’re created evil, also known as the Lucifer effect. The Lucifer effect is the effect of good people becoming evil from their situations; people make personal decisions that result in evil consequences. The oxford dictionary defines Evil as, ‘Profoundly immoral and wicked’. This essay will address some questions, such as; how do people perceive evil, what makes a person evil and what are the outcomes of evil…

A. Lincoln: A Biography, written by Ronald C. White, narrative that breaks up parts of Abraham Lincoln’s life from growing up as a child in Kentucky, to his involvement with the Whig Party, his defeat against Stephen A. Douglas in the 1858 election, his presidency, being a leader in the war, up to his assassination in 1865. He also discusses the medical features of Lincoln and the theory that he had a rare disease. As White states in his book, Lincoln was not like most of today’s politicians,…

Allport grouped traits into cardinal traits, central traits, and secondary traits depending upon how influential they were on the individual. Eysenck proposed three dimensions to explain personality: introversion-extraversion, stable-unstable, and psychoticism. Recent analysis has revealed the existence of the big five factors of personality: openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism (acronym: OCEAN). These big five factors may be able to predict physical and…

behaviour is produced by an interaction between biological and environmental factors (Ireland, & Ireland, 2011). Furthermore, Eysenck thought that certain aspects of personality were key to criminal behaviour such as extraversion, neuroticism and psychoticism (Ireland et al., 2011). Glenn, & Raine (2014) examine the relationship between criminal behaviour and biology. Genetic studies of twins have helped researchers converge on genetic factors as playing a considerable role in antisocial…

Consuming a moderate amount of alcohol is not a problem, for most adults, it can actually benefit your health like helping reduce your risk of cardiovascular disease for example (Bachai). The real danger comes when people start engaging in risky behavior and abusing alcohol. Currently, it is estimated that 14 million Americans abuse alcohol or are alcoholics (Medicine Net). That is one out of every thirteen adults in the United States who are abusing alcohol by consuming it in large quantities…

Criminology is a subject which aims towards discovering the reasons behind an individual’s choice to commit crime and their behaviour in some situations. By understanding a person’s motives to commit a crime, criminologists can try and prevent crime from happening. Several criminologists developed their own theories which explain why people commit crime, what makes them do it and also how we can prevent individuals from committing a crime again. The main theoretical perspectives examined in…

Criminology Essay LO2 A reflective study on adoptees taken out by Mednick et al (1987) focused on court convictions in Denmark and established that there were 14,000 adoptees within the small European country. He wanted to examine the relationship between the adoptees criminal convictions and the convictions of their adoptive and biological parents. Mednick then looked through the data that was based on a register of adoptees in Denmark, which has information on them and their biological and…

Manny’s highest scores on the Clinical scales are 6 and 8, excluding scales 5 and 0. His elevated scores indicated that a defined two-point code type of 6/8 exists. A 68/86 Code type suggested that the client profiles reflects symptoms of paranoia with delusions and in some cases a schizophrenic thought disturbance. Additionally, Manny reported harbor feelings of inferiority and insecurity, he is likely to be guarded and reports of having symptoms related to anxiety. At time, Manny may isolate…