Manolo would like us to complete exercises 3 and 4 from this activity sheet:
CrashCourse Psycology #22 - Activity Sheet
Exercise 3: (While listening, listening for detail) Now, listen to the recording again and write the answers to the following questions about its contents:
1. What was the Hippocratic explanation of the causes of personality?
2. What seems to be the essential issue that is shared by all the speculative theories mentioned in the video?
3. What were the objections that psychologists had about traditional methods of describing personality?
4. Why didn't Allport agree with Freud's interpretation of what he said?
5. What are the five traits? How would you explain them in your own words?
6. How precise are traits in predicting our behaviour?
7. What does Reciprocal Determinism consist of, in your own words?
8. What are some of the tests employed for determining personality?
9. Which is the most common of these tests, and what are its mechanics, and main purpose?
10. What issues might arise from the common interpretations of what the self is?
2. What seems to be the essential issue that is shared by all the speculative theories mentioned in the video?
3. What were the objections that psychologists had about traditional methods of describing personality?
4. Why didn't Allport agree with Freud's interpretation of what he said?
5. What are the five traits? How would you explain them in your own words?
6. How precise are traits in predicting our behaviour?
7. What does Reciprocal Determinism consist of, in your own words?
8. What are some of the tests employed for determining personality?
9. Which is the most common of these tests, and what are its mechanics, and main purpose?
10. What issues might arise from the common interpretations of what the self is?
Answers:
1. The balance of four different 'humors': Phlegm, Blood and Yellow and Black biles.
2. All boil down to one central question: Who or What is the self?
3. They seemed to have a problem with the lack of measurable standards
4. Allport thought that Freud was digging a little too deep, and that sometimes you just need to look for motives in the present and not the past.
5. CANOE: Conscientiousness, Agreeableness, Neuroticism, Openness, Extraversion.
6. They are not, there are instances when a person might behave differently than expected. The traits are better are predicting an average behaviour.
7. We do choose our own social context and experience, and in turn that social context will shape and re-affirm our personality. A bit like a reinforcing loop.
8. Thematic Apperception Test, Myers-Briggs, Minnesota, Big Five ...
9. Possible the most widely used is the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory. 567 true/false questions. Often used to identify emotional disorders.
10. Is it really possible to measure and characterise the 'self'? Is it possible we might have a balance of 'possible selves' and that finding that balance motivates us through life?
Exercise 4: (post-listening, mine the transcript) Take a look at the video again while checking the English subtitles. Make notes about all the words / phrases you don't understand and/or which are new for you. Try to guess their meanings and then contrast your guesses with a classmate / teacher / dictionary.
Answer:
I had never heard of 'Kapha' or the idiom 'full of metal' ... that last one is pretty much self explanatory anyway.
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