PSYC35H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Isabel Briggs Myers, Phlegm, Perfect High
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Aims to classify people into distinct categories. Types refer to categories that are distinct and discontinuous (you are one or the other: different from a personality trait approach, which takes a continuous approach. Ancient greek philosophers (such as hippocrates 400 bc and galen, 140/150 ad) classified 4 types of humors in people: each type was believed to be due to an excess of one of four bodily fluids, corresponding to their character. Distinguishes a preference for focusing attention on, and drawing energy from, the outer world of people and things versus the inner world of ideas and impressions: intuition/ sensing. Distinguishes a preference for gathering data directly through the senses as facts, details, and precedents (sensing) versus indirectly as relationships, patterns, and possibilities (intuition): thinking/feeling. Distinguishes a preference for deciding via objective, impersonal logic (thinking) versus subjective, person- centered values (feeling: judging/perceiving.
