PSY 3303 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: The Modern Age, Anthropomorphism, Psychological Types

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3303
• Professor: Mariusz Michal Zadrag

Document Summary

Persona: a mask, as one appears to others, personality, a part one plays in life (ex. Women putting on make-up or men in a club. Per sonare: to sound through, to come through, what is coming through the mask. Person: the one who is beneath the mask, the inner director, the one who acts and directs the dialogues. Hippocrates- father of medicine: theory of the 4 humours (bodily fluids) Blood, yellow bile, black bile and phlegm. Galen- roman physician: theory of temperament, discovered 600 years later that some people have a temperament according to each season from the theory above all of their life. Yellow bile; choleric; ambitious, restless and short-tempered. Black bile; melancholic; introspective, sentimental and serious. The notion of personality did not exist in the ancient world. Instead, individuals embodied or personified their place in society: ex. They were usually viewed through a cultural lens of the already pre-circumscribed character attributions: ex.