PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Karen Horney, Gordon Allport, Carl Jung
16 Aug 2016
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Personality: unique, relatively consistent pattern of thinking, feeling, and behaving which is a result of innate and environmental factors. Brings continuity to an individual"s behavior in different situations at different times. Theories attempt to tie together all the influences on thinking and behavior. Hippocrates- greek physician, suggested a person"s temperament is a result of the amount of each of the 4 body fluids: sanguine, choleric, melancholic, phlegmatic. Five-factor theory that suggests personality is composed of 5 factors, and everyone falls along the continuum in each of these categories. Ocean: openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism. Traits are stable characteristics that guide an individual under various conditions. Gordon allport: cardinal traits-similar to a personality type, they may define a person"s life, central traits- descriptors others use to describe you, adjectives, secondary traits- not as obvious or consistent. Freuds first patient, went to many doctors, couldn"t figure out numbness in her hand, freud came up with venting to make her feel better.
