Piaget's Cognitive Theory Of Personality In Adulthood: The Social World

1. Chapter 13 “Adulthood: The Social World” emphasizes adults’ mental development in regards to their personality. Parenting styles and an individual’s unique temperament are factors that contribute to adults’ personality. Jean Piaget’s Cognitive Theory is the theory of “human development that focuses on changes in how people think over time, in which thoughts shape attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors,” (Berger, 28) In adulthood, this theory is evident because there are a few adults that develop characteristics that are the reverse of their childhood temperament. “One noteworthy finding about adulthood is that people can change, not only in actions but also in personality, usually for the better,” (Berger, 466). Personality traits begin with genes but as time goes by, they are affected by experiences, as well as, personality affecting almost everything, including whether an emerging adult develops an eating disorder. There are 5 personality traits that remain stable in adulthood known as The Big 5,

The topic of personality traits is important to me because it furthers my knowledge about how things come to the way they are, in this case, how and why people act, think, and behave the way they do. It’s significant for myself and others to know about personality traits because we can then explore the factors and other contributions that result in a way an individual turns out to be in adulthood, whether it be good or bad. It’s interesting to learn about people and why they’re either so shy, outgoing, anxious, creative, and deliberate. It’s amazing to know that human development is constantly changing and that there could be so many little or huge factors that can affect everything, especially by experiences, “traits begin with genes, but they are affected by experiences,” (Berger, 467). By knowing this, I will soon be able to understand why one results in the way they are and how they come from. I will soon be able to understand about myself a little more as