The Biological Aspects of Normal Personality

ISBN-13: 9789401162166 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 392 str.

Robert Alan Prentky

Opis

It is the mission of this volume to accomplish functioning normally. Similarly, if our MMPI two goals: (1) present a relatively broad profile falls entirely within the designated spectrum or research focusing on biophysical 'normal range' we conclude that our person aspects of personality, (2) select those studies ality is functioning normally. Abnormal per examining normal personality. Both state sonality is thought of as so extreme ments require brief clarification. (schizophrenia, manic-depression, neurosis With regards to the first point, it will and the like) that it bears no resemblance, become evident why the qualifier 'relatively' is surely nothing to do with 'normals'. Such used. This area of inquiry is a recent one, only reasoning is surely one of the factors con within the past several decades moving into tributing to the sparse research on normal the neighbourhood of scientific respectability. personality (i.e. what is normal need not be As such, investigation has been limited to a investigated since, by definition, it is normal.)."

Spis treści

Section One Arousal Theory and Personality: Methodological and Conceptual Issues.- Studies of Autonomic Response Patterns: Rationale and Methods.- The Psychological Significance of the Concept of “Arousal” or “Activation”.- Activation: A Neuropsychological Dimension.- A Comparison of Two Measures of “Arousal” in Normal Subjects.- The Measurement of Autonomic Arousal.- The Two-Arousal Hypothesis: Reticular Formation and Limbic System.- Section Two Pavlov and Strength of the Nervous System.- Some Normal and Pathological Properties of Nervous Processes in the Brain.- The Problem of Types of Human Higher Nervous Activity and Methods of Determining Them.- Conditioning, Introversion — Extraversion and the Strength of the Nervous System.- Strength of the Nervous System, Introversion — Extraversion, Conditionability and Arousal.- Relationship Between “Strength of the Nervous System” and the Need for Stimulation.- Extraversion, Neuroticism and Strength of the Nervous System.- Section Three Introversion/Extraversion.- The Chemical Theory of Temperament Applied to Introversion and Extraversion.- Cortical Inhibition, Figural Aftereffect, and Theory of Personality.- Neurophysiologic Studies of Personality.- Extraversion, Reminiscence and Satiation Effects.- Pupillary Response, Conditioning, and Personality.- Psychoticism: A Study of its Biological Basis in Normal Subjects.- Section Four Cortical Substrates of Behaviour.- The Anterior Cingulate Gyrus and Personality.- Personality Analysis Before and After Frontal Lobotomy.- The Effect of Brain Damage on the Personality.- Brain Function and Behaviour.- Psychological Correlates of Monoamine Oxidase Activity in Normals.- Section Five Behavioural Genetics.- The Inheritance of Extraversion-Introversion.- The Inheritance of Personality.- Heritability of Personality: A Demonstration.- The Nature of Extraversion: A Genetical Analysis.- A Longitudinal Study of the Genetics of Personality.