PSY 393 Lecture Notes - Dream5, Parenting Styles, Hypersensitive
10 Sep 2014
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Introduction to biological approach: we are biological creatures - animals. Evolutionary psychology: all life has undergone a change: complex biological systems producing human behavior. Personality and constitution: connecting our personality to the physical makeup of our bodies, hippocrates and galen greek physicians, hippocrates, galen. Brain was responsible for our thoughts and behaviors. Four humors: humor: bodily fluid believed to produce a particular behavioral trait. Four temperaments personality styles: natural outcome of your composition, how humors are balanced, do not choose or decide. Phrenology (franz joseph gall): personality traits were located in specific parts of the brain, study irregularities of people"s external skulls and relate these to psychological characteristics. Deficits and abilities would show in the skull: eeg studies: modern. Search for electrical patterns within personality: more electrical activity in certain regions depending on personality type. How vs. which : how fast or slow you talk in a social setting, how nervous and composed are you.
