CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Personality refers to the enduring characteristics and behavior that comprise a person’s unique adjustment to life, including major traits, interests, drives, values, self-concept, abilities, and emotional patterns.

Detailed explanation-2: -Trait-a consistent, enduring way of thinking, feeling, or behaving.

Detailed explanation-3: -There are three criteria that are characterize personality traits: (1) consistency, (2) stability, and (3) individual differences. To have a personality trait, individuals must be somewhat consistent across situations in their behaviours related to the trait.

Detailed explanation-4: -Personality is the unique way in which each individual thinks, acts, and feels throughout life. Two components of personality are character, which refers to value judgments made about a person’s morals or ethical behavior and temperament, or the enduring characteristics a person is born with.

Detailed explanation-5: -Trait theory suggests that an individual’s personality is inherited from their parents; that traits are innate characteristics that we are born with. They are stable characteristics that are not easily changed so remain stable through our lifetime.