PSYC 111 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Birth Order, Collective Unconscious, Psychosexual Development
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Chapter 11: personality: personality- long-standing traits that propel how someone thinks, feels, and behaves, historical, hippocrates guessed that personality is based on four temperaments based on four fluids in the body. Choleric- yellow bile from the liver: melancholic- black bile from the kidneys. Phlegmatic- white phlegm from the lungs: gale(cid:374) added (cid:373)ore to hippo(cid:272)rates" theor(cid:455) Both diseases and personality differences could be explained by imbalances in these fluids. Each person gets four temperaments: gall proposed different reasons for personalities. Personality has to do with distance between bumps on the skull: measuring these distances shows the size of the brain underneath. Discredited: primary researchers after phrenology was discredited. Kant- agreed with galen that all could be sorted into one of four temperaments: wundt- use two major axes to define personality (emotional/nonemotional, changeable/unchangeable, first divided strong from weak emotions, second divided changeable temperaments. Only about 1/10th of our mind: unconscious.
