PSY 3303 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Myers–Briggs Type Indicator, Hans Eysenck, Carl Jung

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3303
• Professor: Andra Smith

Document Summary

Historical roots of personality: hippocrates- father of medicine, theory of 4 humors. Blood (liver)- spring, air warm and moist. Yellow bile (gall bladder)- summer, fire, warm and dry. Black bile (spleen)- autumn, cold and dry, earth. Phlegm (brain and lungs)- winter, water, cold and moist: galen- roman physicial, theory of temperament based on humors. Yellow bile, choleric, easily angered bad temper. The modern stage: personality is enduring patterns of thoughts, feelings, and behave, characteristics traits and unique dispositions, there was a shift from personification to personalization. 4 humors and today: carl jung and psycho types, extro (thinking, feeling, sensing, inituiting (extreme form is hysteria, intro (same as above) extreme is schizo, transformed into trait typologies; hans eysenck, intro, extro, stable, unstable. Personality and psychopathology: personality disorders are hardest to treat- patients don"t respond well to traditional, psychologically based intervention, most treatments deal with environmental context. Phenomenological approach- understanding the person and personality: descriptive/ pure phenol--logy, devel.