PSYA02H3 Lecture : Chapter notes
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Personality a particular pattern of behaviour and thinking prevailing across time and situations that. Chapter 14 notes differentiates one person from another. Psychologists get their assessment of personality from results of special tests designed to identify particular personality characteristics. Their goal is to discover the causes of individual differences in behaviour. Research on human personality requires 2 kinds of effort: identifying personality characteristics and determining the variables that produce and control them. Trait theorists use the term personality as a set of personal characteristics that determines the different ways we act and react in a variety of situations. Humoural theory was proposed by the greek physician hippocrates in the 4th century b. c. and is the earliest known explanation for individual differences in personality. The body was thought to contain four humours or fluids: yellow bile, black bile, phlegm and blood. People were classified based on the predominance of one of these humours in their systems.
