Lecture 1 - Origins of Differential Psych 0.0 / 5 ? Psychology19PS510 - Personality and Individual DifferencesUniversityNone Created by: katieperry1Created on: 11-01-20 13:28 What was Hippocrates' perspective on physical health? Believed that illness had a physical, rational cause. An imbalance of the 4 main fluids; blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile. 1 of 12 How did Galen match the 4 fluids to their 'humours' (temperaments)? Yellow bile - choleric; phlegm - phlegmatic; blood - sanguine; black bile - melancholic 2 of 12 Which modern psychologist picked up Galen's 4 humours theory for their model of personality? Eysenck 3 of 12 What was Plato's contribution to ID? Tripartite soul - rational/logical, spirited/emotional and appetitive/physical desires 4 of 12 Whose theory is Plato's tripartite soul similar to? Freud's structure of personality 5 of 12 What approach did Theophrastus take to personality? Lexical - wrote a book detailing 30 different 'characters' 6 of 12 What did Descartes advocate? Mind-body dualism; mind and body are separate, mind is spiritual and cannot be studied 7 of 12 What did Hobbes advocate? Monoism; mind and brain are the same thing 8 of 12 Which side of the nature/nurture debate was Locke for? Nurture - believed the mind was a blank slate at birth. 9 of 12 In what context did Darwin consider individual differences? Nature; genetics, natural selection and evolution. 10 of 12 What was Galton's contribution to the study of individual differences? Eugenics, genetic and familial factors, early intelligence testing. 11 of 12 What is the difference between a nomothetic and an idiographic approach? Nomothetic = general laws of behaviour; idiographic = uniqueness 12 of 12
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