PSYC 2130 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Convergent Validity, Discriminant Validity, Phlegm

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2130
• Professor: Krista Phillips

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Disposition an enduring, relatively stable personality characteristic: we are accustomed to speaking about people in dispositional terms in our daily lives. According to the dispositional strategy, people differ in the way they are generally disposed to behave. Dispositio(cid:374)al la(cid:271)els ser(cid:448)e as orga(cid:374)izi(cid:374)g (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:272)epts that (cid:373)a(cid:455) e(cid:454)plai(cid:374) a perso(cid:374)"s (cid:271)eha(cid:448)ior i(cid:374) a variety of situations. Dispositional concepts have been around for thousands of years. Uggested that the (cid:271)od(cid:455) (cid:272)o(cid:374)tai(cid:374)s four (cid:862)hu(cid:373)ors(cid:863): (cid:271)lood, (cid:271)la(cid:272)k (cid:271)ile, (cid:455)ello(cid:449) (cid:271)ile, and phlegm, that correspond to the four elements: roman physician galen suggested that these humors leads to a characteristic tempera(cid:373)e(cid:374)t or (cid:862)perso(cid:374)alit(cid:455) t(cid:455)pe(cid:863) Sanguine (hopeful), melancholic (sad), choleric (hot-tempered), or phlegmatic (apathetic). The dispositional strategy is plagued by language problems: failures to define terms clearly, same given term may be used for slightly different ideas by different theorists, this is a serious and continuing problem for the strategy. Disposition enduring characteristics on which individuals differ; often used synonymously with traits.