Humours associated with temperaments

Temperament: individual differences in general mood.

Blood, yellow bile, black bile, phleg

Gall- phrenology- bumps=personality

Sheldon- physique=personality

PEN theory- psychoticism, extraversion, neuroticism

Hierarchichal organisation: superfactor/trait/habitual response/situation

Regulated by ARAS

Reticulo-cortical: manages arousal from incoming stimuli. High arousal-Intraversion

                       Low arousal- extraversion

Reticulo-limbic: manages arousal from emotional stimuli.

High arousal- neurotic

Low arousal- emotionally stable

Parental Investment Theory

womens mate value- reproductive capacity

mens mate value- ability to provide resources