early biological theories of personality Flashcards
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HIPPOCRATES 4 types of personality
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choleric - quick tempered
sanguine - warm, cheerful
phlegmatic - calm, cool
melancholic - gloomy, pensive
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GALEN 4 humours
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yellow bile - quick tempered
blood - cheerful
phlegm - calm, sluggish
black bile - gloomy
3
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KRETCHSMER body shape and personality
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aesthenic - narrow - schizophrenia
athletic - muscle - thought
pyknic - fat - manic
4
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what does SHELDON believe?
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body type and personality
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SHELDON endomorph
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fat
visceratonia - relaxed, easy going, loves comforts
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mesomorph
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muscle
somatonia - courageous, energetic, assertive, risk-taker
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ectomorph
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skinny
cerebrotonia - apprehensive, secretive, restrained
8
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GLUECK AND GLUECK 1950-56
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deliquent boys are more likely to be mesomorphs
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