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Personality

Personality . Personality – patters of feelings, motives, and behavior that set people apart from each other. Trait – an aspect of Personality that is considered stable. Evaluation: never linked to biological traits (yet).

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Personality

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  1. Personality

  2. Personality – patters of feelings, motives, and behavior that set people apart from each other. • Trait – an aspect of Personality that is considered stable. • Evaluation: never linked to biological traits (yet). • Psychologists work to describe traits rather than finding their origins.

  3. Hippocrates • Greeks believed we were filled with humors • Fluids within the body. • Yellow: Choleric – quick tempered • Blood: Sanguine – cheerful • Phlegm: Phlegmatic – sluggish or cool • Black: Melancholic – thoughtful

  4. Gordon Allport • 1930’s • Assumed all traits are inherited and that they are fixed to the nervous system. • Traits are the building blocks of personality. • Behavior is a combination of traits.

  5. Hans Eysenck • People are Introverts/Extroverts , Stable/Unstable • Introverts – imaginative, look inward • Extroverts – active, self-expressive • Stable – reliable, composed, and rational • Unstable – agitated, unpredictable.

  6. 5 – factor model

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