Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Personality Psychology
- Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology
- The Cambridge Handbook of Personality Psychology
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- General Introduction
- Part I Foundational Issues: History and Approaches to Personality
- Part II Description and Measurement: How Personality Is Studied
- Part III Development, Health and Change: Life Span and Health Outcomes
- 11 Temperament and Brain Networks of Attention
- 12 Development of Personality across the Life Span
- 13 Personality Traits and Mental Disorders
- 14 Models of Physical Health and Personality
- 15 Attachment Theory
- Part IV Biological Perspectives: Evolution, Genetics and Neuroscience of Personality
- Part V Cognitive and Motivational Perspectives: Dynamic Processes of Personality
- Part VI Social and Cultural Processes: Personality at the Intersection of Society
- Part VII Applications of Personality Psychology: Personality Traits and Processes in Action
- Addendum: Statistical Analyses and Computer Programming in Personality
- Index
- References
11 - Temperament and Brain Networks of Attention
from Part III - Development, Health and Change: Life Span and Health Outcomes
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 September 2020
- The Cambridge Handbook of Personality Psychology
- Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology
- The Cambridge Handbook of Personality Psychology
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- General Introduction
- Part I Foundational Issues: History and Approaches to Personality
- Part II Description and Measurement: How Personality Is Studied
- Part III Development, Health and Change: Life Span and Health Outcomes
- 11 Temperament and Brain Networks of Attention
- 12 Development of Personality across the Life Span
- 13 Personality Traits and Mental Disorders
- 14 Models of Physical Health and Personality
- 15 Attachment Theory
- Part IV Biological Perspectives: Evolution, Genetics and Neuroscience of Personality
- Part V Cognitive and Motivational Perspectives: Dynamic Processes of Personality
- Part VI Social and Cultural Processes: Personality at the Intersection of Society
- Part VII Applications of Personality Psychology: Personality Traits and Processes in Action
- Addendum: Statistical Analyses and Computer Programming in Personality
- Index
- References
Summary
Temperament is linked to the structure and function of the nervous system and to the experience of the organism. When we measure the person’s readiness to anger, to seek reward, to focus and switch attention, etc., we are measuring temperament and these in turn are linked to brain networks. Hyperreactivity to an unexpected, novel or intense stimulus, is also a measure of temperament important in understanding the development of behavior problems in children and psychopathologies of stress and attention in adults (Rothbart, 2011; Zentner & Shiner, 2012). Studies of resting state MRI have allowed tracing humans brain changes from birth (Gao et al., 2016), allowing examination of the development of attention and other networks early in life. The advance of epigenetic studies (Meaney, 2010) has offered a framework for thinking about the how the environment and gene expression work in concert to produce the pattern of connectivity unique to the individual.
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- The Cambridge Handbook of Personality Psychology , pp. 155 - 168Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020
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