KINESIOL 2G03 Lecture Notes - Type A And Type B Personality Theory, Kinesiology, Psych
14 Jan 2014
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Myers briggs - characterizes people based on pairs of preferences! E - extroversion or i - introversion! Creative - n (intuition) or pragmatic etc ! Type a: competitive, senior partners, male, 83 (69 actually had type a)! Type b: not competitive, happy, mostly accountants, men, 83 (58)! Type c: not competitive, unhappy, unemployed blind men, 46! They performed an ecg, analysed abnormalities to determine heart disease! Results: type a had a higher disease prevalence than type b or cs! Type a also smoked more, consumed more alcohol! A type a personality is a hypothetical construct! Does not have a biological basis - allows simply for characterization! Personality is dif cult to study, so psychologists have developed tools such as surveys to quantify personality! Recently there has been a spike in the prevalence of autism in the last 35 years! The vaccine for mmr that supposedly caused autism so it was wiped out!
