Temperaments explains differences in people .This include; their tastes, their creative capabilities their strengths and weaknesses, has profound influence on ones behaviour in; their actions and reactions, emotional responses, everything one does
Factors affecting temperaments
- Nationality
- Race
- Persons sex
- Age
Types of temperaments
a. Sanguine
b. Choleric
c. Melancholy
d. Phlegmatic
Nobody has exclusively one temperament or type. Each one is likely to have a single preference, dorminant type or style which is augmented and supported by a mixture of othertypes.diferent people posses differing mixtures and dominances as some people are strongly oriented towards a single type while others have a more even mixture of types.but, no person can possess an evenly balanced mixture of all types. This includes;
1. San chlor
2. San mel
3. San phleg
4. Chlor san
5. Chlor mel
6. Chlor phleg
7. Mel san
8. Mel chlor
9. Mel phleg
10. Phleg san
11. Phleg chlor
12. Phleg mel These different types of temperament s are due to the predominance in the organism of different humour accounted for them by differences of texture and varying solidity of the tissues of the body, varying development of different parts, diverse rates of activity in the processes of nutrition and waste, in the changes of nerve-energy, or in circulation, and by differences of tonicity in the nerves.
The transmission from parent to offspring of hereditary dispositions, therefore, involves no