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Personality Assessment
The term personality is contradictory in itself, then for some,
the personalityis the same as thetemperament, a natural
predisposition genetic basis to think, feel and act in aparticular
way. Forothers, the personality is the unique combination of traits
each person emotional, intellectual andcharacter (honesty, courage
and so on). And for behavioral psychologists orientation,
personalityis not something internal, but rather a pattern that can
be seen externally organized behaviortypical of an individual.
The various definitions of personality have something in common,
but there is still disagreement.Perhaps an acceptable compromise
would define human personality as a combinationof mentalabilities,
interests, attitudes, temperament and other individual differences
inthoughts, feelings
and behavior. This definition emphasizes the fact that
personality is a unique combination ofcognitive and affective
characteristics that can be described in terms of a typical pattern
and quiteaware of individual behavior.
The latter definition we conclude that the methods for assessing
personality must include a rangeof cognitive and affective
variables. Among these variables are the measures
ofachievement,intelligence, special abilities, interests, attitudes
and values. Other featuresemotional,temperamental and stylish,
traditionally known as personality variables are also
important inunderstanding and predicting human behavior.
Theories of Personality
Almost everyone has a theory about the reason why people behave
as they do. Usually, thesetheories of nature and human behavior
consist overgeneralizations or stereotypes, but they serveas guides
to the expectation or primitive action. Sometimes, the mere
survival of a persondepends on the ability to understand and
predict the behavior of others.
Realizing that we are all different from each other and that
human behavior canbe very complex,personality theorists have
learned to suspect common sense explanations. Some
psychologists,impressed by the individuality and intricacy of human
actions, have abandoned the hope ofdiscovering general principles
and laws to explain the personality, the nomothetic rule, the
searchfor general laws of behavior and personality, considered
unrealistic and inadequate to the task of
