Week 2 - Early Biological Theories

Question 1

Hippocrates and Galen’s theory on personality

Answer 1

• 4 personalities
• Choleric = quick tempered (yellow bile)
• Sanguine = cheerful , warm (blood)
• Plagmatic = sluggish , calm (phlegm)
• Melancholic = gloomy , sad (black bile)

Question 2

How are genes , body type , and personality linked?

Answer 2

• Body shape influences personality
• Non Athletic = focus on school = intellectual
• How people relate and act to you

Question 3

Personality and 3 Body Types [ Kretchsmer]

Answer 3

Asthenic = schizophrenia
Athletic = thought disorder
Pyknic = manic depression
Dysplastic

Question 4

Body shape and personality [Sheldon]

Answer 4

1 = ENDOMORPHY : plump = visceratonia (relaxed)
2= MESOMORPHY : muscular = somatonia (aggressive)
3= ECTOMORPHY : frail = cerebotonia (self conscious)

Question 5

Other biological theories relating to personality

Answer 5

• CNS
• Genetics
• Hormonal Level
• [Rees] majority dont report as high as corrolation as sheldon , can’t make prediction