PID

Question 1

What did Galen (200 CE) believe about personality?

Answer 1

• Personality was a biological aspect of man

* Your temperament arose from the constituents of your body

Question 2

Who was Galen influenced by?

Answer 2

Hippocrates

Question 3

What were Hippocrates four humours?

Answer 3

• Blood
• Yellow bile
• Black bile
• Phlegm

Question 4

What were the 4 temperaments of Hippocrates humours?

Answer 4

• Sanguine
• Choleric
• Melancholic
• Phlegmatic

Question 5

What are the traits of sanguine?

Answer 5

Cheerful and enthusiastic

Question 6

What are the traits of choleric?

Answer 6

Hot tempered and irritable

Question 7

What are the traits of melancholic?

Answer 7

Negative and pessimistic

Question 8

What are the traits of phlegmatic?

Answer 8

Calm and unexcitable

Question 9

What does ideographic mean in relation to personality?

Answer 9

Everyone is different (qualitative)

There are more difference between people than similarities

Question 10

What is the scoring system by Exner called?

Answer 10

Rorschach Ink Blot

Question 11

What are the two types of validity called?

Answer 11

• Face Validity

* Content Validity

Question 12

What is face validity?

Answer 12

Transparently measuring what it purports to measure e.g measures numeracy using mathematics

Question 13

What is content validity?

Answer 13

Captures all facets of the aspects to be measured and does not capture irrelevant ones

Question 14

What are the two types of reliability called?

Answer 14

• Internal Reliability

* External Reliability

Question 15

What is internal Reliability?

Answer 15

Items in the test contribute equally to the things being measured

Question 16

What is external validity?

Answer 16

Results are consistent in different contexts and uses

Question 17

Explain psyche in Jungian psychology

Answer 17

• 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)

Question 18

What is the idea of striving for balance called?

Answer 18

Principle of equivalence

Question 19

What is individuation?

Answer 19

Idea of personal growth (unique self emerges from conflicts/trials)

Question 20

What is a teleological approach to the purpose of life?

Answer 20

A focus on the end point of life

Question 21

What makes up the structure of personality? (Jung)

Answer 21

• Ego
• Personal Unconscious
• Collective Unconscious

Question 22

What is the ego?

Answer 22

• personal thoughts/feelings

* feeing of identity

Question 23

What is the personal Unconscious?

Answer 23

Thoughts/feelings/experiences that are blocked from awareness (repressed)
- emerge through psychoanalysis/hypnosis

Question 24

What is the collective unconscious?

Answer 24

Idea of a shared fantasy life
Evolutionary, collective human development
-innate

Question 25

What are archetypes?

Answer 25

The building blocks of the collective unconscious

Question 26

What is the persona archetype?

Answer 26

Archetype we evoke to deal with other people

-hides our inner feelings

Question 27

What is the shadow archetype?

Answer 27

Repressed material from the personal unconscious
Universal images of evil from collective unconscious
-evil side of your identity

Question 28

What is the anima archetype?

Answer 28

• Female qualities w/in males

* derives from human evolutionary experience of mother

Question 29

What is the animus archetype?

Answer 29

• Male qualities w/in females

* derives from human evolutionary experience of father