We often hear: a temperamental person, a temperamental game (about actors), a temperamental performance (about singers or dancers). Temperament is liveliness, excitability, passion. However, the term temperament itself means a set of individual characteristics of a person associated with nervous activity.
Necessary
psychological test
Instructions
Step 1
The concept of "temperament" was introduced by the ancient Greek physician Hippocrates. He identified four main types of human behavior, depending on the predominance of certain elements in the body:
Choleric is an impulsive person, "hot", quick-tempered. These features are given to him by the predominance of bile (from the Greek. Hole - "poison").
A phlegmatic person is a calm, reasonable, slow person with a predominance of lymph (from the Greek phlegm - "phlegm").
Sanguine is an energetic, cheerful person, blood predominates (from the Greek sangua - "blood").
A melancholic is a sad, fearful person, black bile predominates (from the Greek melena hole - "black bile").
The theory of Hippocrates is still the most famous and used classification of characters.
Step 2
There are many psychological tests to determine the type of temperament. Choose one of them using special books or Internet sites. Answer questions as frankly as possible, even if it seems to you that your answer is contrary to generally accepted laws of behavior or even ethics. This way you get a complete picture of your personality traits. In addition, questions under different and far-reaching numbers can be interrelated, so that, deceiving yourself, you can get conflicting results.
Step 3
Keep in mind that your personality can have different types of traits, so don't be surprised if you find yourself both sanguine and choleric at the same time. This will mean that in different life situations you can act according to one type or another.
Step 4
The most famous test for determining temperament is the test of Eysenck, a British psychologist who also developed the test for intelligence. Tests by other authors, as a rule, copy its principle or are more simplified versions with a greater margin of error.
