Development of personality Gcse Psychology Unit 1

• Definition of personality, including temperament.
• Description and evaluation of studies of temperament, including the work of Thomas (1977), Buss & Plomin (1984), and Kagan (1991).
• Eysenck’s type theory (1952); extraversion, introversion and neuroticism.
• Personality scales, including EPI (1964) & EPQ (1975).
• Evaluation of Eysenck’s type theory.
• Antisocial personality disorder (APD); characteristics of APD (DSM 4 2008) Causes of APD:
  • Biological: the role of the amygdala, including the work of Raine (2000)
  • Situational: including the work of Farrington (1995), and Elander (2000)
• Description and evaluation of studies of the causes of APD.
• Implications of research into APD.