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Chapter 14
Personality Theories
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What are some different approaches to personality theories? | Trait theory, psychoanalytic theory, learning theory, humanistic theory, and sociocultural theory. |
| How would you summarize Trait Theory? | based on how the person behaves. |
| According to Hippocrates, where do traits come from? | He suggested that traits are a result of different combinations of bodily fluids, called humors. (yellow bile-quick temper, blood-warm, cheerful, temperment, black bile-melancholy tempermant, phlem-sluggish and cool temperment. |
| What is Gordon Allport's view of Trait Theory? | He assumed that traits can be inherited and that they are fixed in the nervous system. |
| What is Hans Eysenck's view of Trait Theory? | He was focused on the relationships between two personality dimensions: introversion-extroversion and emotional stability-instability. |
| What is the Five Factor Model? |