PSY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Type A And Type B Personality Theory, Extraversion And Introversion, Conscientiousness
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Lecture 7 - psychological factors in disease etiology: personality and health. Extra credit tomorrow - 12pm loma pelona. One disease that is related to personality. Hostility (not necessarily type a) heart disease. One personality that relates to illness in general. Optimism positive health (due to behavior) One disease that does not have a personality component. It is not determinative, just correlation - not causation. Personality refers to individual differences in characteristic patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving. Characterizing individuals in how they differ in different ways. Relies on classifying people in terms of personality traits. How they think: erodicism, openness to new experience, extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness. The scale goes from -11 to +11. +11 is the most hostile you can be; -11 is the least hostile you can be. Sapolsky: how a chair revealed the type a personality profile. Time pressure, hostile, impatient, low self esteem. They say they are more susceptible for heart disease.
