Individual variations - Personality and temperament

5 important questions on Individual variations - Personality and temperament

What are the big five personality factors? (to be remembered by the acronym OCEAN)

  1. Openness
  2. Conscientiousness (willing to do work well and thoroughly)
  3. Extraversion
  4. Agreeableness
  5. Neuroticism (emotional stability)

What does the concept of person-situation state?

That the best way to characterize an individual is in terms of both traits and the situation

Name the three basic temperament styles/clusters that Chess and Thomas say there are in children

  1. An easy child (positive mood)
  2. A difficult child (reacts negatively and cries easily)
  3. A slow-to-warm-up child (low activity, somewhat negative)
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What temperament category did Kagan propose?

Inhibition to the unfamiliar

What three dimensions with regard to temperament did Rothbart and Bates propose?

  1. Extraversion/surgency
  2. Negative affectivity
  3. Effortful control

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