Updated September 12, 2016. Almost every day we describe and assess the personalities of the people around us. Whether we realize it or not, these daily musings on how and why people behave as they do are similar to what personality psychologists do. While our informal assessments of personality tend to focus more on individuals, personality psychologists instead use conceptions of personality that can apply to everyone.
3-â4-year-old children require opportunities to: 1  Play with other children so they can learn to listen, take turns and share. 2  Develop more physical coordination-for example, by hopping on both feet. 3  Develop their growing language abilities through books, games, songs, science, math and art activities.
Young children are natural language acquirers; they are self-motivated to pick up language without conscious learning, unlike adolescents and adults. They have the ability to imitate pronunciation and work out the rules for themselves.