Temperament

Temperament

General patterns or individual diffs
1. Similar methods
Personality
1. Mostly stable set of personal qualities
  1. Diffs in temp may explain diffs in development, leading to diffs in adult personalities.
    1. Some personality theories categorise into types
      1. Others use set of traits or dimensions
Type theories
1. Hippocrates- 4 humours
  1. Myers-Briggs- type inventory
Trait theories
1. Eysenck- introversion/extroversion
  1. Measured by Eysenck personality inventory
    1. Biologically based
Big 5- Costa & McCrae
1. Neuroticism/stability, agreeableness/disagreeableness
  1. Extra version/introversion, openness to experience/ resistance
Cattell
1. 16 personality factors
Some overlap with 3 trait theories
1. Good support from research, agree limited set of stable personality dimensions
  1. Vary on belief of origin of personality diffs, Eysenck more nativist than others
    1. Adult personality measured on self report questionnaire
      1. Many believe its genetic, biological basis to character
Temperament is disposition to act in certain ways
1. Consistent across situations & periods of time
  1. Unrelated to cognitive ability, IQ scores

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	Created by charliestar04 over 10 years ago