PSY230H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Psychopathology, Psychoticism, Reward System
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1st systematic approach to analyzing traits arose in ancient greece. Hippocrates described human temperaments in terms of bodily humours - sanguine(blood; cheerful), melancholic(black bile; depressive), choleric(yellow bile; angry), phlegmatic(phlegm; apathetic) Theophrastus is 1 of the earliest known creators of character sketches(brief descriptions of a type of person that can be recognized across time and place) 19th c: after darwin"s liberated conceptions about the sources of human variation, individual diff became a prime topic for scientific study. Jung helped launch the concept of trait approaches when he employed the terms extroversion and introversion. Myers-briggs type indication - widely used instrument that attempts to measure introversion and extroversion as jung defined them. Sensation-intuition scale - indicates whether a person is more prone to realism or imagination. Thinking-feeling scale - indicates whether a person is more logical/objective or more personal/subjective. Judgment-perception scale - indicates 1"s orientation toward evaluating or perceiving things; structured and judgemental vs flexible and perceptive.
