PSYS 001 Study Guide - Final Guide: Abraham Maslow, Unconditional Positive Regard, Inferiority Complex

• School: University of Vermont
• Department: Psychological Science
• Course: PSYS 001
• Professor: Lawrence Paul Rudiger

Document Summary

Compare and contrast approaches to defining and measuring personality. Personality an individual"s consistent patterns of feeling, thinking, and behaving. Fundamental goal of personality psychologists is to understand what makes people different from each other, also finding out that people who share genes have similar personalities. Phrenology the idea, developed by german physician franz joseph gall, that we could measure personality by assessing the patterns of bumps on people"s skulls. Has now been discredited in contemporary psychology though due to scientific research could determine personality from people"s body types. Somatology the idea developed by psychologist william herbert sheldon, that we. He argued that people with more body fat and a rounder physique were more likely to be assertive and bold, whereas thinner people were more likely to be introverted and intellectual. Has now been discredited in contemporary psychology though due to scientific. Physiognomy the idea that it is possible to assess personality from facial research characteristics.