Hans Eysenck's Personality Theories (continued)

ENDURING ASPECTS OF PERSONALITY

For Eysenck, personality consists of acts and dispositions organized in a hierachical fashion in terms of their level of generality.

Behavioral acts and dispositions
Levels	Generality	Example
Specific response	Least General	A person may buy food, telephone a friend, or move furniture
Habitual Response	Less general	A person may give a lot of parties, and each time he does so he may go shopping for food and drinks, telephone friends to invite them, and rearrange his furniture to accommodate a crowd.
Trait	More general	Someone not only gives a party frequently but is often seen with groups of people, is the campus salesperson for The New York Times and is planning a career in career of sociability, inasmuch as he appears to choose activities that involve his with other people
Type	Most General	A person's sociability is combined with tendencies to be venturesome, lively, and the like, we might further hypothesize that he is on the extravert side of the extraversion-introversion dimension

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