Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Temperament
- General patterns or individual diffs
- Similar methods
- Personality
- Mostly stable set of personal qualities
- Diffs in temp may explain diffs in development, leading to diffs in adult personalities.
- Some personality theories categorise into types
- Others use set of traits or dimensions
- Type theories
- Hippocrates- 4 humours
- Myers-Briggs- type inventory
- Trait theories
- Eysenck- introversion/extroversion
- Measured by Eysenck personality inventory
- Biologically based
- Big 5- Costa & McCrae
- Neuroticism/stability, agreeableness/disagreeableness
- Extra version/introversion, openness to experience/ resistance
- Cattell
- 16 personality factors
- Some overlap with 3 trait theories
- Good support from research, agree limited set of stable personality dimensions
- Vary on belief of origin of personality diffs, Eysenck more nativist than others
- Adult personality measured on self report questionnaire
- Many believe its genetic, biological basis to character
- Temperament is disposition to act in certain ways
- Consistent across situations & periods of time
- Unrelated to cognitive ability, IQ scores