Personality

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Personality
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6 Sleeping Positions that Determine your
Personality
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The Fetus Those who curl up in the fetus
position are described as tough on the outside
but sensitive at heart. They may be shy when they
first meet somebody, but soon relax. This is the
most common sleeping position, adopted by 41 of
the 1,000 people who took part in the survey.
More than twice as many women as men tend to
adopt this position.
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Log (15) Lying on your side with both arms
down by your side. These sleepers are easy going,
social people who like being part of the
in-crowd, and who are trusting of strangers.
However, they may be gullible.
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• The yearner (13) People who sleep on their
  side with both arms out in front are said to have
  an open nature, but can be suspicious, cynical.
  They are slow to make up their minds, but once
  they have taken a decision, they are unlikely
  ever to change it.

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Soldier (8) Lying on your back with both arms
pinned to your sides. People who sleep in this
position are generally quiet and reserved. They
don't like a fuss, but set themselves and others
high standards.
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Freefall (7) Lying on your front with your
hands around the pillow, and your head turned to
one side. Often gregarious and brash people, but
can be nervy and thin-skinned underneath, and
don't like criticism, or extreme situations.
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Starfish (5) Lying on your back with both arms
up around the pillow. These sleepers make good
friends because they are always ready to listen
to others, and offer help when needed. They
generally don't like to be the center of
attention.
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What is personality?

• The set of characteristics that makes each of us
  unique
• These characteristics are relatively permanent
  they do not vary from day to day
• Our personality shapes the way we act, think, and
  feel about events, ideas and other people

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Traits

• Traits are expressed as types of behaviour
• One way of describing a personality is by naming
  a persons traits
• Examples?

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Personality types...Early theories

• Galen, a Greek doctor, during the 2nd Century,
  described 4 personality types based on excesses
  of bodily fluids (or humors)
• 1) Blood (Sanguine) Cheerful optimistic
• 2) Black Bile (melancholic) Depressed
  pessimistic
• 3) Yellow bile (choleric) Quick tempered
  irritable
• 4) Phlegm (phlegmatic) Calm uninvolved

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Temperaments Hippocrates believed that four
bodily fluids affect personality traits
behaviours...
The temperaments were 1) sanguine
(pleasure-seeking and sociable), 2) choleric
(ambitious and leader-like), 3) melancholic
(introverted and thoughtful), 4) and phlegmatic
(relaxed and quiet).
From then through modern times, they, or
modifications of them, have been part of many
theories of medicine, psychology and literature.
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The Big Five TheoryWarren Norman
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  Extraversion adventurous assertive frank
sociable talkative vs.
Introversion quiet
reserved shy
unsociable  
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Agreeableness vs Antagonistic
altruistic argumentative gentle
persistent kind disagreeable sympatheti
c lack of empathy warm
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Conscientiousness vs.
Undirected competent unfocused
dutiful irresponsible orderly
lacking direction responsible
flighty thorough haphazard
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Emotional Stability (Norman) calm relaxed
stable
vs. Neuroticism (Costa and McCrae) Angry
anxious depressed
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Cultured vs. Simplistic cultured
Crude esthetic Crass imaginative
Simple minded intellectual
artistically insensitive open close
d to new things
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Sheldon's Body Types

• Endomorph
• Round
• Soft
• Pudgy
• Short
• Personality characteristics
• Funny, jolly, comical, cheerful,
• Life of the party, sociable

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Ectomorph

• Thin
• Angular
• Skinny
• Tall
• Frail
• Personality traits
• Quiet, shy, reserved, reflective, sneaky,
  sinister

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Mesomorph

• Muscular
• Buff
• jacked
• Active
• Personality traits
• Assertive, leaders, competitive, domineering,
  insatiable,

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Modern Approaches include

• Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
• Canadian Personality Dimensions
• American TRUE COLOURS system
• Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Indicator
  (MMPI)

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Carl Jung Psychoanalytic school of thought

• Jung coined the terms Introvert Extrovert and
  believed we are all one or the other.
• Added his four Functional Types
• 1) Thinking (uses reason)
• 2) Feeling (uses emotions)
• 3) Sensation (uses the 5 senses)
• 4) Intuition (uses perception)
• Thinking Feeling are opposite to each other as
  are, Sensation Intuition he believed our
  conscious unconscious mind(s) gravitate to
  opposing types.