Personality

Question 1

Melancholic

Answer 1

Depressed, sad and brooding if they had too much black bile

Question 2

Chloeric

Answer 2

Irritable, short-tempered and excitable if they had too much yellow bile

Question 3

Phlegmatic

Answer 3

Slow and lethargic if they had too much phlegm

Question 4

Sanguine

Answer 4

Cheerful, active and hopeful if they had lots of blood

Question 5

William Sheldon 1940s identified 3 body types linking to what personalities.

Answer 5

He did the relationship between body build and personality.
Emdorph - large, overweight type, cheerful, relaxed and sociable.
Athletic Mesomorph - assertive, vigorous and courageous
Ectomorph - thin scrawny type - introverted, intense and artistic.

Question 6

What is ID?

Answer 6

The primitive part of our make-up works on the basis of maximising pleasure.
Made up of biological urges for food, shelter and sexual gratification
It is irrational, impulsive and unconscious.

Question 7

What is EGO?

Answer 7

• It is the regulator and sets the standard for behaviour.
• Directs energies of the ID, taking reality into account and making sure that behaviour is practical and appropriate.
• It is in conscious control of behaviour
• According to Freud, the EGO is the part of you that stops you from punching someone when they irritate you, or from leaving class to go to the canteen whenever you feel hungry

Question 8

What is SUPEREGO

Answer 8

• Come into play around 4-5 years of age
• Is the voice of conscience that focuses on how we ought to behave.
• Is the perfectionist part of us, leading to positive feelings of pride or negative feelings of guilt.
• It’s demands are often directly opposed to those of the id.

Question 9

Defence Mechanisms

Answer 9

Unconscious psychological mechanisms that deny, distort or falsify reality.

Question 10

Psychoanalysis

Answer 10

Freud developed technique
Aimed at investigating the unconscious motives of humans.