personality Flashcards
a pattern of feelings, thinking, motives, and behaviors that make people different
personality
aspects of a person that is reasonably stable
disposition
between extrovert and introvert
ambivert
believed human body contained fluids called Humors that caused traits
Hippocrates and Galen
choleric, quick tempered
yellow bile
warm, cheerful, flush
blood
sluggish, cool
phlegm
melancholic, thoughtful
black bile
humans have 18000 traits; physical, moral, and behavioral traits
Gordon Allport
traits are a building block of personality
idiographic
traits that are enduring and crucial
cardinal traits
traits that are mostly consistent
central traits
traits that are mostly situational
secondary traits
systematically studied groups of people, rather than individuals
Raymond Cattell
obvious traits one can see
surface traits
underlying traits effecting clusters of surface traits
source traits
Raymond Cattell’s 16 source traits that can be measured broken up into:
ability, temperament, and dynamic traits
skills to function
ability traits
emotional or style of behavior
temperament traits
motivations
dynamic traits
emphasized biological foundations, PEN
Hans Eysenck
how easily aroused, needs more stimulation
PEN: extroversion/introversion
how fast autonomic NS responds, needs less stimulation, immediate flow of emotions
PEN: neuroticism
who invented the Big Five?
Rogers and McCrae