There are personalities that come naturally but many are nurtured through experiences one has. Through my own life experiences from what I consider a decent normal childhood into now a happy grown adult. Many of my personalities have remained the same while other parts have changed as has life changed especially since becoming a mother. Now, the experiences and personalities I’ll further describe are from my viewpoint and if you ask my friends or family members their opinions it may change slightly. As a viewpoint is only the person describing its perception of things. When I think of personalities that remained the same throughout my life span of 31 years thus far. As far back as I can remember to know I have had a positive outlook on life where I always found the good in something no matter how bad the situation was and consider it my most prized part of my personality. Like …show more content…
If you ask my friends and family they would probably say I am missing boisterous, which would be naturally based on the fact I have always been a loud outspoken person wherever I am. Information of time can begin to decay or fail to encode as we get older or stored in a different part of the brain that just isn 't able to access. Misinformation effect happens more than we admit where you may remember small parts of your childhood and you fill in the gaps with reasonable guesses or assumptions that fit the story. There is also hindsight bias that many people have that after a tragedy like twin towers had fallen, people said things like “I knew that was going to happen.” Though no one truly did know for a fact. Memories are tricky and some are too hard to bare that some people even create false memories to cover up or help them survive through the struggle of what caused them to create it in the first
What is personality? Are humans born with a personality or does it develop over time through personal experience? Each person has unique characteristic patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving that stay consistent over time and across situations. Over the years, psychologists have approached the study of personality in many ways. Some psychologists set out to understand how personality develops, while others set out to understand why there are differences in personality. Humans are complex beings, changing in different situations and with different people, which makes personality too complex to easily be described. However, psychologists focus on studying the internal and external aspects of a person’s character that influence
Human beings and what defines us is a complex, never-ending process. We are a combination of our biology and our experiences. I believe that a person is born with a personality that becomes molded overtime due to our experiences and produces who we are as people. Who we are as people is determined by a multitude of interactions and constructs. This idea of personality is nearly impossible to define, as everyone defines personality differently. The construct of personality is hard to define, and many personality theorists continue to debate on its definition. Personality is a difficult construct to define because so many theorists evolved their own distinctive perspective due to a lack in agreement on the nature of humanity. Due to a lack of
People can have up to fifty personalities or more. All personalities usually will have their own name and their own role. For example one personality can be the keeper of pain, his role is to take and feel all the pain that the other personalities come in contact with. The personality also can have their own appearance, but this does not mean the person changes its outer image it is just the way he/she sees inside his/her head. The personalities will also have different ages, talents, and likes and dislikes. For example:
I am an undocumented student at UC Davis. When I am asked a simple question such as, "describe your personal experiences", I ask myself: Where do I begin?
A great deal of personality comes from within us. It has to do with likes and dislikes, and how we choose to react to daily things. For example, I have to write a paper. Is that good or bad? Depends on if I like writing papers or not.
Personality varies from person to person. It is made up from many things such as biological factors, personal influences and the way things are viewed. The main background behind personalities is Needs. Chuck Noland, a character played by Tom Hanks in the movie “Cast Away,” shows how personality can develop overtime as he was stranded on an island for four years. Chuck was a manager for FedEx before the unfortunate event that the delivery plane he was on crash into the middle of nowhere. He was fortunate though to be the only one who survived the crash. During his four years on the island he had to develop and learn survival skills. At some point he lost his courage to keep living, and tried to kill himself, but he found motivation to keep living which was due to his wife that he loved very much. His personality from before the accident was a clear change as he had needs he had to fulfill. In the book “Psychology tenth edition,” written by Myers, it shows significance to why Chuck’s personality has changed, but Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs clearly depicts the reasons for Chuck’s personality on the four years he was on the island. Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs has five elements that must be fulfilled. The first two are physiological and security needs. The next two are social and esteem needs. The final element and the most important part of the elements is the self-actualization need.
As individuals we all have something within us that sets us apart, and makes us unique, our personality. Maybe you’ve come across someone who isn’t the easiest to get along with, and someone utters, “Don’t take it personally; they were born with a bad personality.” While some believe personality is entirely dependent upon your parents, your friends, and merely the way you were born, people neglect the science behind the traits of personality. Personality is defined as an individual’s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting. It is through personality that we are able to explore our innermost being and determine why we act and react to things the way we do, and what makes us make the decisions we choose.
Personalities differ greatly from one person to another and there are many theorists with different theories of why people act the way they do. The first few stages of a person’s shape their entire personality and how they are going to be for the rest of their life and that is very important. The development of a person has to do with who their parents are, how they are rasied, their environment, etc. and that is very crucial. Every person acts the way they do for a certain reason and that it showed by many theories throughout time.
A personality is usually formed throughout the progression of an individual life. Genetic Composition, and the environmental setting play a role in an individual life. Our personality is dependent on the development of the eight stages of life, according to Erik Erikson. If you are successful in each development stage, you will gain a virtue for each stages that is completed. However, failing the
If you ask someone to define personality, you’d probably get many different answers. Like the answers you’d receive, our personality is also very vast. Everyone has a unique personality. Meaning the characteristics and qualities of oneself are different from person to person. Some argue that personalities are passed down from parent to child, but when you analyze both child and parent, you will notice differences between the two, proving that a person’s personality is unique to themselves. On the other hand, when you look at personality from a macro point of view, you will start to notice what are called personality traits. Evidence is accumulating which
The distinctive characteristics and qualities of any one person is one way to define personality. According to Feist & Feist (2009) personality is described as a pattern of relatively permanent traits and unique characteristics that give both consistency and individuality to a person’s behavior. These traits are the precursor of behavior as per individuality, and that of behavior that is consistent throughout life. Although a person can argue the fact that traits is a disposition of genetic predisposition of certain characteristics, the pattern in which these are characterized are different. Each person’s anatomy, intelligence, and temperament are differently and each owns a unique personality, different from parents, grandparents, and any other individual on this planet. Personality theorists’ however may not concur.
Nurture has a more stronger influence on your personality than nature does. They both have a huge role in contributing to your personality development, it is a proven fact. Identical twins have a lot of differences, but also many similarities. Your personality can keep changing while you're growing up. Studies have shown that your personality is based off your surroundings and how you have been raised. From now on when you watch how people act, be sure to remember this debate and think about what their personality is based
There have been tons of things that I have learned and been taught in my life, by a number of people such as family, teachers, or even friends on occasion. The things they taught me vary from math and other related subjects to just some truly simple yet meaningful life lessons. However, there is nothing quite as unique, quite as special as a person teaching themselves a life lesson. It really is an amazing accomplishment for a person to teach themselves something. It is not quite as simple as another person teaching them something because it is not just the transferring of information from one person to another. The person instead has to start from scratch and process the information they have in their mind in order to come up with a new thought
Our personalities are what distinguish us from each other beyond our appearance; without them, we would all behave and react in the same way. Personality is the reason we are outgoing or introverted, persistent or blaze, and anxious or calm. We each have different levels of these competing characteristics that make us unique. But why are personalities so varied? Personality is determined by an array of factors from genetic and biological to the personal experiences and decisions we have faced from the day we are born. The complexity of our personalities cannot be simply explained, and for this reason there exists many different theories of how it’s developed and personality is still deeply under study. I went into this subject with an open-mind
Personality takes many shapes and forms and is affected by many factors. My understanding of personality is simply a genetic and environmentally determined set of psychological traits that influence our reactions in the world around us. Genetic because our parents possess a certain set of psychological personality traits that we tend to have in common with them so therefore in my opinion there are heritable personality traits. Personality is environmental because we each have our own separate experiences in the world and these experiences help form our unique personality. Neo-Freudians such as Jung have given us a wide array of ideas of how they believe personality is developed and formatted. Jung in particular has a very interesting