Biological Bases of Individual Behavior

V. D. Nebylitsyn,J. A. Gray

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Year: 2013
• ISBN:
  9781483274799
• Topic: Psychologie
• Subtopic: Psychologie physiologique

Biological Bases of Individual Behavior contains a mixture of papers from East and West. The book can be organized into two parts. The articles in the first part, which might broadly be termed ""physiological"", examine a number of questions relating to the physiological constitution and to methods of measuring the properties of the nervous system. This section opens with one of Teplov's last papers, which contains a lucid exposition of the main results of research carried out in 1964 in the laboratory he directed. The other articles in this section elucidate the use of electroencephalographic and Chronometrie methods of studying the properties of the nervous system; examine problems of sensitivity and ""partiality"" in the manifestation of the basic properties; and present the results of experiments conducted to study the correlations between certain properties of the nervous system and features of the human constitution, as well as between age and neurodynamic factors. The second part of the volume may be described as psychophysiological. It consists of articles which examine the possible physiological mechanisms of individual psychological features of behavior. Many are devoted to either experimental or theoretical analysis of the neurophysiological bases of the personality dimension of extraversisn-introversion.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Biological Bases of Individual Behavior
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of Contributors
• English Editor's Preface
• Foreword
• Chapter 1. The Problem of Types of Human Higher Nervous Activity and Methods of Determining Them
• Chapter 2. The Driving Reaction as a Method of Study in Differential Psychophysiology
• Chapter 3. Concentration of Nervous Processes as an Individual Typological Feature of Higher Nervous Activity
• Chapter 4. Interanalyser Differences in the Sensitivity-Strength Parameter for Vision, Hearing and Cutaneous Modalities
• Chapter 5. The General and Partial Nervous System Types—Data and Theory
• Chapter 6. Problems of Interrelationship Between Typological Features and Age
• Chapter 7. The Correlation Between Background Alpha Activity and the Characteristics of the Components of Evoked Potentials
• Chapter 8. Cerebral Evoked Responses and Personality
• Chapter 9. Absolute Sensitivity of the Analysers and Somatotype in Man
• Chapter 10. The Interpretation of Pavlov's Typology, and the Arousal Concept, in Replicated Trait and State Factors
• Chapter 11. Human Typology, Higher Nervous Activity, and Factor Analysis
• Chapter 12. The Psychophysiological Nature of Introversión-Extraversion: A Modification of Eysenck's Theory
• Chapter 13. Conditioning, Introversion-Extraversion and the Strength of the Nervous System
• Chapter 14. The Theory of Individual DifFerences in Neo-Behaviourism and in the Typology of Higher Nervous Activity
• Chapter 15. A Note on the Criteria of Dynamism of the Nervous Processes
• Chapter 16. Experimental Pain
• Chapter 17 The Relationship of Strength-Sensitivity of the Visual System to Extraversion
• Chapter 18. Concerning the Relation Between Extraversion and the Strength of the Nervous System
• Chapter 19. Studies of Individual Differences at the Applied Psychology Unit
• Chapter 20. Alterations in Functional State as affected by Different Kinds of Activity and Strength of the Nervous System
• Chapter 21. Vigilance as a Function of Strength of the Nervous System
• Chapter 22. Study of the Correlation between Flexibility of Attention and Dynamism of Nervous Processes
• Chapter 23. Influence of Neuro-Dynamic Factors on Individual Characteristics of Problem Solving
• Chapter 24. Crime and Personality: A Review of Eysenck's Theory
• Chapter 25. Learning Theory, the Conceptual Nervous System and Personality
• Chapter 26. The Problem of General and Partial Properties of the Nervous System
• Author Index
• Subject Index