PSY 161 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Gordon Allport, Discrete Category, Humorism

• School: University of Rochester
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 161
• Professor: Professor Elliot

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Two kinds of dispositions: types & traits, summarize observable behavioral tendencies and categorize, needs & motives, summarize basic motivations underlying observable behavior. Types vs. traits: type theories, discrete categories, either in one group or the other, oldest way to enter into scientific discussion about personality, trait theories, continuous dimensions. Hippo(cid:272)rates" four hu(cid:373)ors: you are low or high in categories, hippocrates thought you could sum up the body, thought ill health came from excess of one humor, blood, black bile, yellow bile, phlegm. Gale(cid:374)"s hu(cid:373)or theor(cid:455) of te(cid:373)pera(cid:373)e(cid:374)t: grou(cid:374)ded i(cid:374) hippo(cid:272)rates" idea of e(cid:454)(cid:272)ess. Excess in blood: sanguine, excess in black bile, melancholic, excess in yellow bile, choleric, excess in phlegm, phlegmatic, type approach, discrete category approach, one or the other. Sheldo(cid:374)"s so(cid:373)at(cid:455)pes: sheldon argued that personality was based on body structure, endomorphy, plump, associated characteristics, relaxed, lover of comforts, sociable, good humored, mesoporphy, muscular, associated characteristics, adventurous, courageous, competitive, lover of risk and chance, ectomorphy, frail, associated characteristics.