Assignment task:
Remember to respond to two peers while being respectful of and sensitive to their viewpoints. Consider advancing the discussion in the following ways:
Post an article, video, or additional research to reinforce a peer's idea or challenge them to see their point from a different perspective.
Engage in conversation with your peers around their theory of personality. Consider asking a question or sharing your own personal experience.
Sarah post
Hello. My name is Sarah, and I am 44. My major is Psychology, and I am focusing on childhood and adolescent development. I have kids, grandkids and a few chickens to round out our fun family. I am in the middle of my degree and am looking forward to this class.
How can you observe personality?
I work in the public every day and I observe people's personalities by how they interact to the environment, how they handle stress and how they respond to the people who they talk to by verbal and nonverbal ques. You also can learn about people's personalities by psychological tests and by how people talk about themselves.
Does nature or nurture play a larger role in personality development? Justify your response.
I think that nurture plays a larger role in personality development than nurture. We have some genetic traits that we are born with and also that we learn from our family. However, our personalities tend to change and develop as people grow face different situations in our lives. As teenagers and adults, we have our own experiences that change the way we see things and how we react to either great experiences, relationships or trauma. Also, as adults, we are capable of changing the environments we live in and the jobs we work at that will also change our personalities. A high stressful and busy job can make people very aggressive or unhappy. People who then leave those jobs or change their environment could be a more pleasant and caring person just by removing themselves from a bad situation.
What is the value of studying personality in yourself and others?
Is personality changeable? Does it shift over time? Does it depend on the situation?
Studying your own personality and others will help you learn more about yourself. I think it will let you know the good and not so good areas of your life that we should work on. We will also be able to learn why others think and act like they do, and we can learn how to interact with others better. Our personalities can shift and change over time by learning about ourselves, environmental changes, life changing situations and many other things that changes us as people. We always grow, learn and adapt to things around us. A bad relationship can help us by teaching us to be more cautious about who we are with. Having children can teach us to be loving and caring. Our personalities can constantly develop, grow and change.
Studying personality connects to emotional intelligence by helping us learn about others and how to interact with others. Knowing how a person's personality is will help us to control our emotions around them, how they will react to our emotional needs and also show empathy towards others. Need Assignment Help?
Daniel post
Hello, my name is Daniel. I'm a psychology major and a Navy veteran. I work maintenance, create art and comics. I've struggled with major depression my whole life from trauma. 2 years ago I had a life changing psychedelic experience that lead here. I began unpacking and dealing with 30 years of unresolved necrotic memories. I've also found Buddhism extraordinarily helpful and interesting.
My personal theory of personality starts with the idea that we are shaped through repeated experience. You can observe personality by watching how someone reacts to stress, relationships, and choice over time. For example, I used to think I was an angry person, but I've learned that my anger was mostly a survival response from trauma. Once I felt safer, I began acting differently. This tells me personality is not engraved in stone. It changes, especially when people are given new experiences, safety, or a new way of thinking entirely.
I have no idea which weighs more, genetics or the nurturing of your life (or lack of). Genetics might give us some baseline, but our behavior, worldview, and emotional responses come from how we are treated, what we survived, and what we believe. Studying personality helps us understand the nuanced threads that weave a life.
Emotional intelligence is at the forefront of this matter. When we understand our own patterns, we can stop reacting automatically, to make wise choices, based on right thinking. That's helped me recover from old behaviors and start showing up to my life differently. I've started seeing the results. 2 years is a long time to spend with your soul on the operating table. This journey of trauma recovery is the hardest thing I've ever done.
Most people are not afforded an opportunity like mine. It's not so simple to slam the breaks on your life and come to a stop. I had to do this in order address the preta running the show in my mind. What I've done is nothing short of repainting the entire canvas of your life, with new brushes and new paint. This has exhausted me, leaving me feeling entirely hollowed out, only to take another step. But when my wife tells me she can see a difference, I find more strength. I'll keep working so I can be a better husband, one she deserves.