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Personality
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-A person's internally based characteristic way of acting and thinking.
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Assessment- Ancient Greeks
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-4 bodily humors (bodily fluids)
--Yellow bile --Black bile --Blood --Flem *Your personality was a combination of these different bodily fluids |
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Ancient Greeks- Hysterical behavior
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-They felt that when women were hysterical were hysterical because the uterus had detatched and was wondering through the body causing havoc.
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Gall-1800's-Phrenology
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-You could determine personality through the bumps on a person's head.
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Sheldon-Somatotypes
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He was able to organize men by three primary body types. Ectomorph- somebody who is very thin and not nescessarily tall, kind of frail. They are intellectual, fearful, and rather restrained.
Endomorph- somebody who is round. This goes along with the belief that fat people are happy and jolly. Also, they are very social. Mesomorph- the big shoulders and smaller waist line. They would be characterized as being athletic and adventurous. |
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Other forms of personality assessment
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-Handwriting- graphology
-Astrology -These are NOT valid measures |
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What are some measures of assessment that are used today?
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-Projective test- inkblot
-Paper and pencil inventories (MMPI) -Observation (often in therapy) |
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Multiple Personality Disorder- (Dissociative Identity Disorder)
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-Two or more distinct identities within the same person-Usually one personality knows about the others, but the core personality does not know about the others
-The personalities take over one at a time -They are not caused by alcohol or drugs *Often one of the personalities is a child |
