Psychology 2550A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Soltyrei, Agreeableness, Cyrestis Thyodamas

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2550A/B
• Professor: David Vollick

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Types: some categorizations sort individuals into discrete categories or types. In ancient theory of temperaments greek physician hippocrates assigned persons to one of four types: choleric (irritable), melancholic (depressed), sanguine (optimistic), and phlegmatic (calm, listless: in accord w/ biology of his time (about 400 b. c. Chapter three: ex: type a pattern is interesting b/c some of its ingredients, particularly chronic levels of hostility and anger, seem to have value in predicting variety of dangerous health outcomes, most notable proneness to premature coronary disease. Involved in multiple activities, have numerus and social commitments and participate in competitive athletics. Traits defined: while typologies assume discontinuous categories (like male or female), most traits are measured on continuous dimensions like friendliness , differences among individuals arranged quantitatively in terms of degree of quality person has (like degrees of friendliness ) Example of trait as unifier of stimuli and responses trait: friendliness. Surface traits and source traits studied by cattell.