Chapter 7

Question 1

4 Humors

Answer 1

1) Sanguine
2) Phlegmatic
3) Melancholic
4) Choleric

Question 2

(blood) - confident, optimistic, strong personality

Answer 2

Sanguine

Question 3

calm, not funny, low activity of feelings

Answer 3

Phlegmatic

Question 4

(black bile) depressed, anxious, weak feelings

Answer 4

Melancholic

Question 5

(yellow bile) angered easily, high activity of feelings

Answer 5

Choleric

Question 6

discrete categories and not every one has each type

Answer 6

types

Question 7

continuous categories that everyone has a certain level of each

Answer 7

traits

Question 8

fundamental unit of personality

Answer 8

traits

Question 9

2 assumptions of Allports Lexical Approach

Answer 9

1) more frequently used words are more important

2) more important words have more synonyms.

Question 10

compare between people

Answer 10

nomothetic

Question 11

look at individual

Answer 11

idiographic

Question 12

single dominate traits (most important)

rare.

Answer 12

cardinal traits

Question 13

short list, may 5-10 traits, that we use to describe our personality

Answer 13

central traits

Question 14

not core to personality - situationally dependent and more about preferences.

Answer 14

secondary traits

Question 15

all parts that make up the self.
include sense of body, self-esteem and self-image.
ones sense of self

Answer 15

Proprium - “the self”

Question 16

16 dimensions that everyone in the world has

Answer 16

source traits

Question 17

less important traits derived from source traits

Answer 17

surface traits

Question 18

do something all day, take notes on it. trait is observed once.

Answer 18

specific behaviours

Question 19

the way people respond in a given (same) situation. Something we see repeatedly in situations. Way individual typically behaves in a situation.

Answer 19

habitual response

Question 20

continuum of the degree of the attritbutes that one possess

Answer 20

super traits

Question 21

those who are emotionally unstable

over-react

Answer 21

neuroticism

Question 22

anti-social
free from fear and anxiety
agressive, cold, lack of empathy, agressive

Answer 22

psychoticism

Question 23

The Big 5

Answer 23

OCEAN

1) openness
2) conscientiousness
5) extraversion
4) agreeableness
5) neuroticism

Question 24

when an individual is open to new experiences; imaginative, considers new ideas, intellectually curious

Answer 24

openness

Question 25

in control, planners and achievers; on the other end, they are careless, distractible and undependable.

Answer 25

Conscientiousness

Question 26

sociability; someone who is energetic and friendly

Answer 26

extraversion

Question 27

helpful, trusting, sympathetic; tend to have fewer fights; suspicion on the other end, satiable and uncooperative

Answer 27

agreeable

Question 28

emotion instability; mood swings, negative emotions; lack things such as guilt; on the low end, tend to be calm and well adjusted.

Answer 28

Neuroticism