PSYC2242 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Somatotype And Constitutional Psychology, Trait Theory, Mesoderm
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Concepts - obedience to authority, closeness of authority figure. Proposition - obedience increases with closeness of authority figure. Scale of empathic tendency conceptual definition reliability this is the consistency of a measurement and it is generally assessed with a correlation coefficient. 3 types of reliability internal consistency test-retest. Theories have their basis in philosophical thinking. Hippocrates said that personality had to do with bodily fluids. He attributed temperament to the excess of one bodily fluid over another. At the time, this made sense because, until the 19th c. , physicians thought any disease was from an excess of blood. Hippocrates based his bodily fluid theory off of the 4 previously established elements from aristotle (air, earth, fire, water). Choleric black bile angry, irritable. This guy further elaborated hippocrates" body types and came up with 3. This guy came up with 2 theories. These are similar to kretschmer, as we can see.
