PSY 307 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Aeschylus, Stoicism, Ethnocentrism
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Confucius: goodness, courteous, loyal, diligent, wisdom, and bravery. Pindar and aeschylus: wisdom, courage, temperance, justice, and piety. Stoics: all-in-one virtue called honestas which includes honorableness, nobleness of character, and honesty. Hippocrates and galen developed humors that described each type of person. A expert says so and creates a theory and/or inventory as a way of saying so. Strengths: expert perspective, starting from a coherent theory. Limitations: expect way to be wrong, or biased, or ethnocentric. Find out which attributes seem to be most important to non- expects like everyday people. Strengths: important in everyday life, gets at important attributes, is at least a good starting point. Limitations: what experts see may go beyond these. Generally recognized as the best way to determine what are the most basic dimensions of personality. Through the use of single terms, not necessarily the best way to measure personality.
