Individual Identitions: Meaning Of Individual Differences

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MEANING OF INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES:
Dissimilarity is principle of nature. No two persons are alike. All the individuals differ from each other in many respects. Children born of the same parents and even the-twins are not alike. This differential psychology is linked with the study of individual differences. This change is seen in physical forms like in height, weight, and color, and complexion strength etc., difference in intelligence, achievement, interest, attitude, aptitude, learning habits, motor abilities, and skill. Each man has an intellectual capacity through which he gains experience and learning. Every person has the emotions of love, anger, fear and feelings of pleasure and pain. Every man has the need of independence, success and …show more content…

Environment does not refer only physical surroundings but also it refers the different types of people, society, their culture, customs, traditions, social heritage, ideas and ideals.

RACE AND NATIONALITY:
Race and Nationality is one cause of individual difference. Indians are very peace loving, Chinese are cruel; Americans are very frank due to race and nationality.
SEX:
Due to sex variation one individual differs from other. Men are strong in mental power. On the other hand women on the average show small superiority over men in memory, language and aesthetic sense. Women excel the men in shouldering social responsibilities and have a better control over their emotions.
AGE:
Age is another factor which is responsible in bringing individual differences. Learning ability and adjustment capacity naturally grow with age. When one grows age can acquire better control over our emotions and better social responsibilities. When a child grows then this maturity and development goes side by side.
EDUCATION:
Education is one major factor which brings individual differences. There is a wide gap in the behaviors of educated and uneducated persons. All traits of human beings like social, emotional and intellectual are controlled and modifies through proper …show more content…

Phrenology is the study of an individual's bumps on the skull, which supposedly reveal character traits and mental abilities.
Phrenology had such vogue that by 1832 there were 29 phrenological societies in Britain and many journals in both the UK and US devoted to the study of phrenology. It was seriously proposed to select Members of Parliament from their "bumps". Some phrenologists even molded children's heads to accentuate good qualities and minimize bad ones!
Despite the theory being incorrect one of its assumptions holds true: the idea that various brain regions have particular functions.
Darwin suggested that nature selects successful traits through the survival of the fittest. His cousin, Sir Francis Galton (1822-1911) concluded that he could apply the principle scientifically. Why not measure human traits and then selectively breed superior people? He assumed human traits, everything from height and beauty to intelligence and ability, to personality traits such as even-temperedness, were

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