PID Flashcards
What did Galen (200 CE) believe about personality?
- Personality was a biological aspect of man
* Your temperament arose from the constituents of your body
Who was Galen influenced by?
Hippocrates
What were Hippocrates four humours?
- Blood
- Yellow bile
- Black bile
- Phlegm
What were the 4 temperaments of Hippocrates humours?
- Sanguine
- Choleric
- Melancholic
- Phlegmatic
What are the traits of sanguine?
Cheerful and enthusiastic
What are the traits of choleric?
Hot tempered and irritable
What are the traits of melancholic?
Negative and pessimistic
What are the traits of phlegmatic?
Calm and unexcitable
What does ideographic mean in relation to personality?
Everyone is different (qualitative)
There are more difference between people than similarities
What is the scoring system by Exner called?
Rorschach Ink Blot
What are the two types of validity called?
- Face Validity
* Content Validity
What is face validity?
Transparently measuring what it purports to measure e.g measures numeracy using mathematics
What is content validity?
Captures all facets of the aspects to be measured and does not capture irrelevant ones
What are the two types of reliability called?
- Internal Reliability
* External Reliability
What is internal Reliability?
Items in the test contribute equally to the things being measured
What is external validity?
Results are consistent in different contexts and uses
Explain psyche in Jungian psychology
- symbol of the multifaceted nature of the total personality (male/female, good/mortal)
- conflicts w/in the psyche produce life-process energy (trials result in happy endings)
What is the idea of striving for balance called?
Principle of equivalence
What is individuation?
Idea of personal growth (unique self emerges from conflicts/trials)
What is a teleological approach to the purpose of life?
A focus on the end point of life
What makes up the structure of personality? (Jung)
- Ego
- Personal Unconscious
- Collective Unconscious
What is the ego?
- personal thoughts/feelings
* feeing of identity
What is the personal Unconscious?
Thoughts/feelings/experiences that are blocked from awareness (repressed)
- emerge through psychoanalysis/hypnosis
What is the collective unconscious?
Idea of a shared fantasy life
Evolutionary, collective human development
-innate
What are archetypes?
The building blocks of the collective unconscious
What is the persona archetype?
Archetype we evoke to deal with other people
-hides our inner feelings
What is the shadow archetype?
Repressed material from the personal unconscious
Universal images of evil from collective unconscious
-evil side of your identity
What is the anima archetype?
- Female qualities w/in males
* derives from human evolutionary experience of mother
What is the animus archetype?
- Male qualities w/in females
* derives from human evolutionary experience of father
