Abstract. The research of the ancient Hippocrates and Galenus defined four types of temperaments: sanguine, phlegmatic, melancholic and choleric. Unlike the ancient, Pavlov focused on the three characteristics of the central nervous system: the force or energy, the mobility (the ease with which we go from excitement to inhibition and the other way around) and the balance (the organization of the force of the two processes – excitement and inhibition). From their combination resulted four types of behavior (Băileșteanu, 2008, p. 29):
Keywords: assessment of the potential, ability, correlation, capacity, concept, methodology, performance, meaning, management
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