Temperament Of Personality

All humans have a personality. Personality is referred as the “individual differences in characteristic patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving” (insert citation later on). Personality is an essential asset for human social interaction and helps define the person. Psychologist having been trying to understand the personality of a child. Through experimentation and theorizing it can be concluded that the myth “Our personality is not formed until we are about 5 years old” is busted. Many psychologist have theorized on the development of the human personality. Beginning with Sigmund Freud he theorized that the personality was developed through psychosexual stages. Psychosexual stages are defined as “Each stage is characterized by a particular

In Temperament and personality development across the life span it is stated “The idea that happiness depends on personality” (Victoria J Molfese; Dennis L Molfese; NetLibrary, Inc., 2000, p. 214). Behavior-genetic studies are used to draw conclusions on how subject well-being and emotions fit together. Early childhood temperament is as well studied to build the relationship between subject well-being and development of personality. Temperament is a person’s nature. There is theories that childhood temperament may have an influence on adult personality later on in life. “Temperament studies and behavior-genetic studies are only the first step in identifying and explaining the relations between personality and subject well-being.” (Victoria J Molfese; Dennis L Molfese; NetLibrary, Inc., 2000, p. 219). Aspects of personality is linked with other things that humans develop as growing

He conducted his experiment in the 1940’s. The child observes objects different than adults. Infants express words through the unity of the body to express the words. Wolff begins to discuss about how the child begins looking for the inner self “The mirror leads the child to the first philosophical problem, namely, that of being confronted with himself; he realizes that he has to discover himself, and then the world by himself.” (Wolff, 2014, p.72). Wolff talks about how there are three different basic forms of expression a child use. The following expressions are the expression of thought, the expression of action, and the expression of movement. The expression of thought is how the memory relates. The expression of action is studied in behavioral observations. The expression of movement is judged by neutral observers on the subject. (Wolff,