Angina (chest pain) that occurs regularly with activity, after heavy meals, or at other predictable times is termed stable angina and is associated with high grade narrowings of the heart arteries. Th ...
Type A personality behavior was first described as a potential risk factor for heart disease in the 1950s by cardiologists Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenman. After an eight-and-a-half-year-long study of ...
Historians agree that Hippocrates was born around the year 460 BC on the Greek island of Cos. Other biographical information, however, is likely to be untrue.Soranus of Ephesus, a 2nd-century Greek gy ...
Five Temperament theory has its roots in the ancient four humors theory of the Greek Historian Hippocrates (460-370 BC), who believed certain human behaviors were caused by body fluids (called "humors ...
Essentially, this theory holds that the human body is filled with four basic substances, called humors, which are in balance when a person is healthy. All diseases and disabilities supposedly resulted ...
Galen's name Γαλην??, Galēnos comes from the adjective "γαλην??", "calm".Galen describes his early life in On the affections of the mind. He was born in September 129 AD; his father, Ae ...
Temperament theory has its roots in the ancient four humors theory. It may have origins in ancient Egypt or Mesopotamia, but it was the Greek physician Hippocrates (460–370 BC) who developed it into ...
The Roman physician Galen mapped the four temperaments (sanguine, phlegmatic, choleric and melancholic) to a matrix of hot/cold and dry/wet, taken from the four classical elements. Two of these temper ...
Factor analysis, the statistical method used to identify the dimensional structure of observed variables, lacks a universally recognized basis for choosing among solutions with different numbers of fa ...
A summary of the factors of the Big Five and their constituent traits, such that they form the acronym OCEAN:Openness to experience: (inventive/curious vs. consistent/cautious). Appreciation for art, ...
A table of the personality dimensions measured by the NEO PI-R, including facets, is as follows:Neuroticism Extraversion Openness to experience Agreeableness ConscientiousnessAnxiety Warmth Fantasy Tr ...
As the MBTI Manual states, the indicator "is designed to implement a theory; therefore the theory must be understood to understand the MBTI".:1Fundamental to the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator is the th ...
Psychological testing has come from two streams of thought: one, from Darwin, Galton, and Cattell on the measurement of individual differences, and the second, from Herbart, Weber, Fechner, and Wundt ...
In probability theory, the normal (or Gaussian) distribution is a very commonly occurring continuous probability distribution—a function that tells the probability that any real observation will fall ...
The origins of personality testing date back to the 18th and 19th centuries, when personality was assessed through phrenology, the measurement of the human skull, and physiognomy, which assessed perso ...
