Personality

                                                       Personality

Has to do with individuali differences among people in behavior patternes, cognition and emotion. different personality the orists their own difinitions of the word based on their theovertical positions.

the trem ¨personality trait¨ refers to enduring personal  characteristics that are reveodled in a particular partern of behoviour in a variety of situations 

Personality can be determined through a variety of testy, such as the Minnesota Multiphasci personality inventory ros schach inkblot test, or the thematiel appercoption, test, the most popular technique is the self-report  inventary-a series of answers to a questionnaire that asker participants to indicate the extent to which sests of statements or adjetives accuratdy describe their own hehavior or mental stats.

the study of personality started with Hippocrater  four humours, and gave reis to four temperaments the explanation was. turther refined by his scucess or Glaben during  the second century CE the ¨faru Humours¨ theorty held that a personals, personality was. based on the balance of bodily humoros. 

yellow bile, ballack bile phleg thegm irascibli ltigh leveis of black bile was indicative of phleghm, leading to their sulggin, calm temperament finally: people thought to have higt levels of bold were said to be sanguine and were characterized  by their checrtul, passionats dispositions.

personality is usunally broken into component called the Big five, which are openness to experince. conscientionusness, extroversion, aureablenees and neoroticisn (oremotionality) these components are generlls  stable over time and apper  to be attributable to a person, genetics rather that the effects of one environments.

some resarch has investigated whather the relationship bet ween happiness and extriversion seen in adults can also be seen in children. the implications of these findigs can help identify children that are more likeny to respond to. in both children and delvelvp types of terament that such adults. research shows that genetics as.