PSYC 1020H Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Anal Retentiveness, Reaction Formation, Puer Aeternus

• School: Trent University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1020H
• Professor: Brenda Smith- Chant

Document Summary

Traits: enduring predisposiions that inluence our behavior across situaions. The search for personality types has been of interest in 5th century bc: hippocrates said we have 4 basic luids (homours, each associated with diferent temperaments. Modern times: eysenck (1973, 19950), the big 5. William sheldon: body types: personality (1942: endomorphic (fat chubby) Love of comfort: mesomorphic (less fat, normal sized, athleic type body) Indiference to what others think or want: ectomorphic (tall, skinny) Sulloway: birth order theory (1996: first born. Likely to idenify and comply with parent"s wishes: last born. Seek to excel where other siblings not established. Open to experience: more than 7 years gap between siblings, based on darwinian concept survival niches", supporing research, bogaert (2003, 2006, brock university) Signiicant posiive correlaion between sexual orientaion in men and the number of older brothers. More older brothers= more likely to be gay: issues with birth order: Dimensions of personaliies that people can vary on.