tHeories of personality :)

1) Type and traits approach - focus on characteristics.

2) Dynamic approach - on motives impulses and pshychological process


TYPE OF THEORY - Hippocrates 400 BC

4 temperamental types :

> sanguine - cheerful vigorous
> phlegmatic - slow moving calm
> melancholic - depressed morose
> choleric - hot tempered


MANY OTHER TYPOLOGIES.

A class of individuals said to share a common collection of characteristics :

1) INTROVERTS : shyness, socal withdrawal, tendency to talk much.

2) EXTRAVERTS : tendency to be outgoing, talkative.