Chapter 15, Problem 1RQ

Summary Introduction

To discuss:

The similarities and differences between my personality and the personalities of my family members.

Introduction:

Personality is that pattern of factors, thoughts, feelings, and behavior that differentiate one person from another and that persists over time and situations. There are many perspectives of personality or factors in personality introduce by many theorists and psychologists over time to build up a more unified structure of personality, those factors of personality are

1. The genetic factor 2. The environmental factor 3. The learning factor 4. The parental factor 5. The developmental factor 6. Consciousness factor 7. The unconscious factor. These all factors contribute their role in determining aspects of personality, by analyzing all these factors on my family I can relate my personality with my dad, mom or sister and me.

Explanation of Solution

After analyzing the personality of myself and my family members, I see some aspects are similar and some very vastly. I find that extraversion dimension of personality is hereditary, that continue feeling of excitement, joy, love, acceptance, open to experience is what I got from my father.we have similar morals values and principles for life. We function in the same manner on most of the ideas like we have the same dressing sense (may learn to be observing).

We both have the same taste in food choice but sometimes our views are different on the same idea, like on the concept of music. We have a different feeling and like my father believe in god but I don’t I instead believe in being supreme us. It also depends on the content and nature of that idea. So yes, decision making is what makes me different from him because I learned and experience things in another way. Biological traits like our skin color, height, hair pattern etc. carried in DNA. That form our physical appearance of character same like this some aspects of mental personality factors are also hereditary but most continue to until adolescence after that it’s all us.

Conclusion

Some of the aspects of personality we inherited from our family and some factors are added over time like genetic factor, environmental factor, learning factor, parental factor, developmental factor, consciousness factor, and unconscious factor.