BESC1433 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Numerology, Palmistry, Graphology
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Week 2: trait models of personality: understand the difference between trait models and typologies. With this approach, it is easy to make comparisons between people. Interest in normal personality characteristics rather than "unhealthy" individuals. Interest in conscious thought: assumption that personality causes behaviour, little speculation about why" of behaviour, emphasis on degree of difference among people on traits. Individual differences: traits are usually viewed as normally distributed, degree of trait - not presence or absence, each individual is unique in that their individual configuration of traits is unlikely to regularly occur. Historical type & trait theories: hippocratic humours, traditional medicine practiced in greco-roman civilisation and in europe during the. Sheldon"s somatotypes: theory that personality is related to body shape, strong development of one body element leads to corresponding personality type, endomorphy: abdomen and digestive system, mesomorphy: muscles and circulatory system, ectomorphy: brain and nervous system. Endotonia: comfort-seeking, enjoy relaxation, food and socialising, jolly, friendly.
