Biology
Biologically based tendency to feel or act in certain ways.
Temperament.
Personality tests that examine unconscious processes by having people interpret ambiguous stimui.
Projective measures.
Three personality characteristics that can be considered temperaments.
Activity level, sociability, emotionality.
Personality tests that use questionnaires to let people respond to items that reveal traits and behaviors.
Self-report measures.
Personality traits that are largely determined by biology and are stable over time.
Basic tendencies.
A test where people wear a device that unobtrusively tracks their real-world moment-to-moment interactions, picking up snippets of conversation and other auditory information.
Electronically activated record (EAR).
Changes in behavioral expression of basic tendencies based on the demands of specific situations.
Characteristic adaptations.
The theory that behavior is determined more by situations than by personality traits.
Situationism.
Processes the degree of arousal.
Reticular Activating System (RAS).