My Grandmother Biological Perspective

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Individuals can range variously on any characteristic measures whether judging on positive or aggressive traits. In regards to my grandmother, one open characteristic she has had for decades is her risk avoidant ideals and behavior. While the reasons for why she is this way are endlessly theorized, there are some strong personality perspectives that can help reason her characteristic. Using considerate detail, this paper will analyze and percept on my grandmother, Jean, from the personality perspectives of social and cultural influences, behaviorism, and biology. Beginning with the biological personality perspective, hormonal and genetic concepts can easily reason with her way of being non-risky. The biological perspective could begin to reason …show more content…

When asked the question of why she never takes risks, and why she wants to be 100% safe she gave the simple socially experienced answer of "because that's how I was raised". Going over her background, she talked about how there wasn't really even any risks to take. Thus, not only was she culturally raised during more settling times, but she wasn't socially exposed to anything wild or risky. For example, the most risky situation she ever experienced (that is also most closely relatable to the behavioral perspective because of it being the only significant learning experience from her taking a risk) was when she skipped school once with a friend of which her uncle caught her, but then decided to tell her parents on her instead of confronting her. Then, when her dad asked her about school, and she lied, she said she got a deadly backside beating. Skipping school causing the bad parental confrontation was her most risky experience. Other than this confrontational experience, she claimed to have no others that were significant "learning experiences". Thus, I could only identify this one strongly influencing behavioral experience because she confirmed no consistent, or ratio, forms of reinforcement for her good

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