TCH 210 Lecture 11: Temperament and Personality
10 Oct 2018
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Temperament: differences in intensity and pattern of emotions and reactivity to environment, psychological and physiological traits that are present early in life and predict later personality, the activity and emotion core of personality, kagan"s research on infant temperament: - certain reactions in 4 month old foreshadow shyness or sociability. - reacting to something with extreme distress at 4 months old more likely to be timid. - happy, calm outgoing, non-fearful in the future. Activity level: movement, effortful control, controlling attention, inhibiting impulses, resisting distractions, negative emotionality, ease of becoming irritated, angry, or scared intensity of negative emotions, behavioral inhibition, wariness of novelty, strong negative reactions to new people, events or objects. Relationship among temperament, parenting, & child outcomes: contributions to temperament, physiology and genes, parenting and attachment, goodness of fit is linked to child outcomes. Personality: enduring behavior and traits, temperament and attachment form the foundation for specific personality traits, 5 broad personality traits the big five.
