PSYC 330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Conscientiousness, Dsm-5, Trait Theory
20 Sep 2017
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When psychology was first formulating itself, individuals talked about traits based on air, earth, fire and water: notion: the elements that will influence an individual, would talk about the role of each element with each particular individual. An individual was described as warm/moist, cold/dry, warm/dry, cold/moist. Four humours: blood, black bile, yellow bile, phlegm: high levels of blood- sanguine; happy, optimistic. Temperaments: sanguine melancholic, choleric, phlegmatic: melancholic: the blues (high levels of black bile, choleric (yellow bile): quick to temper, quick to irate, phlegmatic: cold and calculated. Individuals who have these particular temperaments have certain characteristics/traits. If an individual has high levels of neuroticism then they can either be seen as melancholic-introverted/choleretic-extroverted: looking at the levels of neuroticism and the levels of introversion/extraversion with the ideas of temperament. Clinical psychologists do not use the word neurotic instead it is more anxious/nervous/pessimistic: psychotic and introversion/extraversion are still used in psychological clinical settings.
