Psychology / Unit 10 Psych 1140 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Eysenck's Dimensions
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The idea
Eysenck proposed that personality reduces to a small number of broad dimensions, initially extraversion and neuroticism.
In practice
Two axes place a person as stable or reactive and as outgoing or reserved.
Where people slip
Eysenck argued these dimensions have biological bases. That claim is separate from the factor structure itself.
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