PSYA02H3 Chapter 14: Final Exam Notes - Chapter 14.docx
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Research on human personality requires two kinds of effort: identifying personality characteristics and determining variables that produce and control them. Earliest explanation for individual differences in personality proposed by hippocrates in 4th century b. c. e. refined by galen in 2nd century ce. Based on medical belief that the body contained 4 humours: yellow bile, black bile, phlegm, blood. People classified according to the disposition supposedly produced by predominance of one of the four humors. This was later discredited, but the notion of personality types persisted. Most investigators conceive of individual differences in personality as difference in degree not kind. Personality types: different categories into which personality characteristics can be assigned based on factors such as developmental experiences or physical characteristics. Personality trait: an enduring personal characteristic that reveals itself in a particular pattern of behaviour or in a variety of situations. Personality traits are not just patterns of behaviour, they are factors that underlie the patterns and are responsible for them.
