PSYA02H3 Study Guide - Final Guide: 16Pf Questionnaire, Gordon Allport, Antisocial Personality Disorder
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Personality: a particular pattern of behaviour and thinking that prevails across time and situations and differentiates one person from another. Research on human personality requires two kinds of effort: identifying personality characteristics and determining the variables that produce and control them. Need to be careful of nominal fallacy: false belief that causes of an event are explained by simply naming and identifying them. Personality traits: to denote a set of personal characteristics that determine the different ways we act and react in a variety of situations. Earliest known to explain individual differences in personality (400 bce) Refined by galen in 2nd century ce. Theory based on common medical beliefs originating from the greeks. Body containing four humours: yellow bile, black bile, phlegm and blood: choleric (excess of yellow): bad-tempered and irritable, melancholic (excess of black): gloomy and pessimistic temperaments, phlegmatic: sluggish, calm and unexcitable, sanguine people were cheerful and passionate.
