The document discusses the type and trait approach to understanding personality, specifically referencing a Greek physician Hippocrates' classification of individuals into four types based on the dominance of internal fluids or humors - blood, phlegm, black bile, or yellow bile. Each fluid was associated with a particular temperament - blood with a sanguine or cheerful and active temperament, and phlegm with a phlegmatic or apathetic and sluggish temperament. This classification approach suggests personality is determined by the dynamic organization of an individual's psychophysical system and its unique adjustment to the environment.

1. Personality.
. It is the dynamic organization
within the individual of the
psychophysical system that
determines the unique
adjustment to one’s own
environment

2. Approaches to personality
• Type and Trait Approach.
• What is type approach to personality.
• Greek Physician Hippocrates classified
individuals into four exclusive types.
• Four classification is on the basis of four
internal fluids or humors each associated with
particular temperament.

3. The four basic fluids
• 1.blood.
• 2.phelgm
• 3.black bile
• 4.yellow bile
• The dominance of any one fluid lead to a
particular personality temperament.

4. Blood.
•Dominance of blood
produced sanguine
temperament. (cheerful
and active)

5. Phelgm.
• Dominance of phlegm produced phlegmatic
temperament.( apatetic and sluggish)