PSYC2242 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Hans Eysenck, Extraversion And Introversion, Neuroticism
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Pick one word that best describes your temperament. Pick one term from hippocrates to describe yourself. What we just scored above ^, he called supertraits . Strongly believed that they were biologically based. Ambivert = everyone in the middle range. But nobody wants to be called neurotic implies hospital, etc. Others might call it emotionality or something like that. Used the term type , even though one of his big claims to fame is that they were dimensions and not types. For our purposes, we will call this a trait, not a type. 100s of terms for emotion, mood, etc. If you look at an english dictionary, there are hundreds of terms for personality, mood, emotion, etc. If you go to describe your mood/personality, there are many terms to use. Observation: if a person endorses one term, they are likely to endorse themselves with another related term. 16 mood terms related in 1 structure = core affect.
