PSYA02H3 Lecture 14: PSYCHOLOGY Lecture 14 Introduction to PErsonality.doc
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Your personality reflects the relative amount of the four fluids in one"s body: blood (sanguine), phlegm (phlegmatic), yellow bile (choleric) and black bile (melancholic) In a given human, one of these four fluids is stronger than the others stronger one matches the personality. Types are not common in psychology now but still some categorization i. e. type a. Traits are more accepted now all of us vary on certain trait it"s not that you have them or you don"t. People range in a very quanititative way i. e. income of people everyone"s got money but some have more or less same notion of personality traits. Went to every written source he can find and found words used to describe people and counted which ones come up commonly thought that commonality indicates the importance of the traits. Gordon allport"s trait theory can talk about an individual"s trait in three different ways: cardinal traits, centrol traits, secondary traits.
