Week 10 Personality Flashcards
What is personality?
Traits and patterns that propel individuals to think, feel, and behave in specific ways
Hippocrates theory
Personality traits are associated with four fluids (humors)
What are the 4 fluids?
- Choleric
- Melancholic
- sanguine
- Phlegmatic
Choleric
Yellow bile from liver (passionate, ambitious)
Melancholic
Black bile from kidney ( reserved, anxious)
Sanguine
Red blood from heart ( joyful, optimistic)
Phlegmatic
White phlegm from lungs ( calm, reliable)
Carl Jung
Focussed on balancing conscious + unconscious thought
What did Carl Jung explore?
Collective unconscious
What is collective unconscious?
Universal version of personal unconscious
Archetypes
Patterns that exist in our collective unconscious
Persona
A mask that we consciously adopt
Carl Rogers
Linked personality with self concept
Congruence between ideal + real self