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Biological Influences on Per.
Intro to Subject
12
Psychology
Undergraduate 4
04/02/2009

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what are the four body humors of Hippocrates?

 

Definition
 
- yellow bile - choleric or irritable 
 
- black bile - melancholic or depressed
 
- blood - sanguine or optimistic
 
- phelm - phlegmagtic or calm
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this forensic phychiatrist developed physiognomy

and thought that appearance was associated with retardation, genious and insanity?

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Lombroso

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the study of the bumps on the skull that are thought to indicate psychological traits and personality?

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Phrenology

 

a thought of the 1800s and included thinking that parts of the brain controlled different physchological functions.

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what are the three body types according to Kretschmer?

Definition
 
- asthenic- thin and fragile
 
- athletic- muscular
 
- pyknic- round
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who came up with the three body types of endomorph (round), ectomorph (thin) and mesomorph (hard, strong)?

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Sheldon (1940s/50s)

 

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what were the three relations between body and temperment?

 

Definition

 

 - viscerotonia- love of comfort and approval

 

 - cerebrotonia- tense, withdrawn and introverted

 

 - somatotonia- assertive, aggressive, active

 

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biological aspects of personality? 

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temperment

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what are the three dimensions of behavior in regards to temperment?

 

Definition

 

- easy - regular, not easily irritated

 

- difficult - irregular, eaisly irritated

 

- slow-to-warm up - withdraws from and irritated by novel stimuli

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who identified the dimensions for EASI; emotionality, activity level, sociability, impulsivity (later dropped)? 

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Buss and Plomin

Term

 

 

measure heritability 

Definition

 

 

the degree to which a trait isdue to genetics

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neurochemistry contains the role of what?

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neurotransmitters

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control of cognition and behavior by specific brain structures and pathways

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neuroanatomy

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