... of psychology. However, a definition that captures much of what psychologist mean by personality was provided by Child (1968 p.83),who described it as "more or less stable, internal factors that make one person's behaviour consistent from one time to another, and different from the behaviour other people will manifest in comparable situations". The definition is rather broad, because it includes intelligence as an aspect of personality. Many theorists argue that the term "personality" should be restricted to emotional and motivational factors, but others would extend it to include intelligence. Personality theorists of the past used to identify personality types rather than traits. In essence, type theorists assume that all individuals can be allocated to one of relatively some types of categories. The issue of personality types is as old as psychology. Infact it is a good deal older. The ancient Greeks for example have given it considerable thought. Hippocrates (around ...

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