Introduction to Personality
PSY/405
December20, 2010

Abstract

There are all types of intelligence that influences many different areas of an individual’s personality in so many different ways. The fact that intelligence can sometimes be considered as a part of personality. These issues of personality have been debated over time. Some of the main points are to bear in mind for that both intelligence and personality is a prominent of individuals many differences. Therefore, personality cannot be so easily defined in individuals.

Therefore, personality can be referred as our many attempts to capture and to summarize all individual essences. Personality therefore is known as personality, in which this is the science for describing and for understanding individuals. After saying this, personality is also known as a coring area of studies for different types of psychology. So putting these together within intelligence, these topics of personality can have a constitution for most of the significant areas of individual’s differences within studies.

Introduction to Personality

There is not a chance for two people to be exactly the same and not even identical twins are the same. Some individuals are anxious, some individuals like the idea of risk-taking; some individuals are phlegmatic, some individuals are very high-strung; some individuals are very confident, some individuals are very shy; some individuals is very quiet, and some individuals is loquacious. These issues of differences in individuals are a fundamental for those that studies in personality.

As noted this is also within the studies of all the differences that we will also be looking at, as where the individuals differences actually comes from such as: intelligence we can find that there are a mixture within the nature and the nurture that is involved. Mean while, there are so many different theories within an individual’s personality, Such as we must have an understanding upon exactly what is meant by the term personality in individual’s.

Therefore, this leads to many different brief on the definition of personality, but the main ones on personality is that an individual’s personality are made up of their characteristic and their patterns of thoughts, their feelings, and there is what makes an individual unique in their very own ways of living.

Therefore, individual’s personality can arise from within their life span and is very consistent throughout their lifespan. Some of the individual’s fundamental characteristics of their personality can include the following in their life span: consistency is generally recognized in an order and is regularity for their behaviors. Saying this, some individual’s do act in the same way and in some similar ways for a variety of different situations.

Individual’s can have some type of impact on their behavior and on their actions, and this could possibly mean that their personality will not just begin to have some influence on how they move or even on how they would respond in their very own environment; this can cause individual’s to act in certain ways. Individual’s multiple expressions is displayed in many different ways and more the less just to behavior in a certain way.

This could also be seen through their thoughts, their feelings, their closeness to a relationship, and even their social interactions with others. There are so many different theories that are on how individual’s personality is developed throughout their life span. There are some major perspectives that are on personality that could include the following: the different types of theories are one of the earliest of perspective on personality.

Like the trait theory, this was viewed as a personality and the result that was within an individual’s internal characteristics. Therefore, individuals and their personalities are known as their complex of their mental characteristics that helps make individual’s them unique. This has included all of their patterns within their thoughts; and as well as their emotions that can cause them to do things and to say things in certain ways.

Therefore, saying this, individuals are within their basic level, and their personality is beginning expressed throughout their temperaments and their emotion of certain tones. Individual’s personality could also have colors within their values, within their beliefs, and within their expectations. Therefore, there are so many different potential factors that may not be involved in helping individual’s shaping their personality. Some of these factors could be blamed on the environment and so on.

Some individuals could have a learning disability. Some individual’s may be slender within certain cultures that could be considered as obesity that has the attractiveness or vice versa. Therefore, believing that an individual’s personality is a permanent pattern of different traits; different dispositions, and even some sort of different characteristics that is created by some degree of their consistency behaviors.

Individual’s personality can have an influence on everything that they do in their lives; giving individuals their own ideas of what may be right or wrong. Therefore, the six dimensions that are within their personality are examined by the following: determinism versus free choice, conscious versus unconscious determinants of behavior, biological versus social influences on personality, and teleology versus causality.

Determinism and free choice are dealt by whether or not an individual’s life is predetermined, or if choices are what determine their life. Biological and social influences are based upon their personality are their paradox concerning what may be influencing their personality, their genetics, and their society. The paradox of causality versus teleology is a based topic of their present life, and in which there forward may be determined by their past, or their future. Conscious versus unconscious is based on determination of behavior that is therefore dealt within the paradox of their unconscious mind, and this is therefore determined by their behavior.

Conclusion Determinism versus free choice is that of paradox, in which individuals life may be determined by certain things that is not within their control. Therefore, free choice is ideas of an individual’s life. Therefore, individuals are determined within their behaviors, and with things that they do. Individuals are influenced by the things they do, or by their religion that their parents believed in, and this can be caused by what they was inherited from their parents. Even though, individuals may not always carry their parent's religion, this could be due to the fact that a parent may have been a Christian, and the individual became a catholic, which this is considered their choice of freedom. Therefore as an individual is raised, individuals are most likely to carry a part of their parent's views on politics, or if they was for the a democrat or for the republican, could just be the cause of what their parents may have told them, in which some results are within their political views and this is a predetermined within their parents.

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