PSYC 304 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Longitudinal Study, Extraversion And Introversion, Jerome Kagan

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 304
• Professor: Melanie Dirks

Document Summary

E. g. motivation, creativity: temperament is measured in infants and younger children, shift to personality in later childhood and adolescence, personality traits are relatively stable patterns of behaviours, motivation, emotion, and cognition. E. g. neuroticism, extraversion: temperament may be related to these traits, origins of research on temperament, thomas, chess, and birch. Researchers had been focused on how children are similar. Interviews with mothers about children"s activity routine. He gets mad when i say no. 3-month intervals until child was 3 years old. 6-month intervals until child was 5 years old. Would your friends and family describe you as a happy camper or as an eyesore. Interested in new things, biologically regular, high in positive mood, adaptable, low intensity reactions. High withdrawal, biologically irregular, negative mood, not adaptable, high intensity reactions. High withdrawal and slow to adapt, but has low intensity reactions. Some evidence that these dimensions were linked to behaviour problems in children.