Assignment On Personality

GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY ASSIGNMENT

(Abhay Khosla

13EC10069)

What is Personality?

A famous quote by Paul Harris says that “Personality has power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless.”

Personality refers to individual differences in characteristic patterns of thinking, feeling and behavior. The study of personality focuses on two major areas: one individual differences in certain personality characteristics such as sociability or irritability. The other is the understanding of how the different parts of a person, together as a whole.

Personality refers to a person who is unique and relatively stable pattern of thoughts, feelings and actions. Our personality is shaped by our biological and ecological aspects. Both biology

Psychodynamic theories include psychosexual stage theory of Sigmund Freud and Erik Erikson's stages of psychosocial development.

Humanist theories

Humanist theories emphasize the importance of free will and individual experience in the development of personality. Theoretical humanists emphasized the concept of self, which is an innate need for personal growth that motivates behavior.

Trait Theories

The trait theory approach is one of the most important in the areas of personality psychology. According to this theory, personality is composed of a number of general features. A trait is basically a relatively stable characteristic that causes an individual to behave in a certain way. Some of the theories of the best known features include three-dimensional theory of Eysenck and the theory of the five personality factors.

The most widely accepted of these traits are the Big Five:

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Introversion is often confused with shyness, but the two are not the same. Shyness implies a fear of social interactions or an inability to function socially. Introverts may be at parties perfectly charming - they prefer to work alone or in small groups activities.

Agreeableness

Compatibility measures the extent of a person, the warmth and friendliness. The pleasant someone is, the more likely they are to be trusting, helpful and compassionate. Unpleasant people are cold and suspicious of others, and they are less likely to cooperate.

Neuroticism

Adult Education in neuroticism worry frequently and easily slip into anxiety and depression. If all goes well, neurotic people tend to find things to worry about.

In contrast, people who are poor to neuroticism more emotionally stable and to be even keel.

Unsurprisingly, neuroticism is associated with a lot of poor health outcomes. Neurotic people die younger than the emotionally stable, possibly because they, to relieve himself on tobacco and alcohol her