...Introduction to Personality Deanna Guarino-Embry PSY/405 August 12, 2013 Les Binnix Introduction to Personality The fluidity of personality makes the subject difficult to pinpoint and define. The perception of personality continues to fill psychological literature and study with widespread research and theory. Personality is the continuous presentation of attributes and distinctions that contribute to variety in human thought and behavior (Feist & Feist, 2009). To enable more precise understandings of such differences and distinctions, psychological theorists develop explanations and parameters from various contexts. Psychoanalytic, humanistic and/or existential, dispositional, and learning theories help psychologists account for why and how people develop such individual and specific characteristics. They study these characteristics and the significant affects that the characteristics have on human development, as well as, the whole of human nature. Personality Defined According to Feist,& Feist (2009) personality is a global concept referring to a relatively permanent pattern of traits, dispositions, or characteristics that give some degree of consistency to a person’s behavior. Feist & Feist (2009) also wrote "Although no single definition is acceptable to all personality theorists, we can say that personality is a pattern of relatively permanent traits and unique characteristics that give both consistency and individuality to a person's behavior...
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...Introduction to Personality Paper Personality separates individuals in a form far more exclusive than any other form. People may share similar skin, hair, eye color, height and weight, ethnicity, and religious beliefs but no two people possess the same personality traits. Personality, stated by Feist & Feist (2009), has no single definition but is a pattern of permanent traits and unique characteristics offering individuality, and consistency to an individual’s behavior. This research paper explores personality theory, and addresses the definition of personality, examines theoretical approaches, and analyzes factors that may influence an individual’s personality development. Definition of Personality Feist & Feist (2009), explain that personality stems from the Latin word persona, which references a theatrical mask Roman actors in Greek dramas wore. These masks or personas were wore as a projection of a role or replicate a different character. The definition of personality today is quite different than that of Roman and Greek times and is mostly based on observable behavior described by characteristics, and traits. Traits equate from an individual’s behavioral consistencies, and characteristics demonstrate one’s unique attributes such as physical aspects, intellect, temperament, and wit. Traits also offer exclusive characteristics, which provide a person individuality, and stability to his or her behavior. According to Feist & Feist (2009, p. 4), personality is best defined...
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...04/28/2016 Steffen Fuller, PH. D. Neuropsychological and Personality Assessment. CASE 1#: * 33 years old female, Master’s degree-level education. * She and husband in process of divorcing; have 2 small children * Pt. report increased anxiety in recent month, manifesting in interrupted sleep, worry over possible custody battle with husband, and paranoid thoughts that husband is stalking her. * Pt. also reports that she has new boyfriend, is attracted to other men and feels guilty about this. * Husband reports that pt. is emotionally unstable and has threatened, at different times, both his and her own safety. Questions: 1. Does pt. have an anxiety disorder or is she merely reactive to situation stress? 2. Is there evidence in the test data of bipolar disorder? Depression? Generalized Anxiety Disorder? Acute Stress Disorder? Paranoia? 3. Comment on possible Axis II (personality disorder) features. 4. What recommendations would you make for this woman with respect to her marriage relationship, her parenting issues and needs/ directions for psychotherapy? What specific treatment options would you recommend regarding these areas of functioning and why? WAIS IV RESULTS: VERBAL COMPRENSATION: 115 PERCEPUAL REASONING: 124 WORKING MEMORY: 110 PROCESSING SPEED: 128 RORCHACH RESULTS: 1. A bug. That’s it. W F+ AD(ANIMAL DETAILS) 2. A dead bug. … be it’s bleeding. That’s it. W FMC (SPECIAL PHENOMENUS=BLOOD) 3. A praying...
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...(Intro) Hook Have you ever been in a plane crash? I hope not but brian from hatchet Author Gary Paulsen has been! (Intro) Introduce Topic: A boy named brian Robeson is on his way to visit his father when the pilot suddenly stops breathing Brian did not know how to fly a plane what would he do, the plane going down in a crash brian breathing heavily will he make it how will he survive what will he eat?? I guess you have to read the book to find out!! (Intro) Thesis: Based on what I have read in the book and my personality I think I would not survive. Body paragraph 1: The first reason I would not survive is because brian ate RAW eggs TURTLE eggs RAW I don't think I could survive eating raw eggs because 1 I dislike eggs in the first place...
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...thoughts becoming a persona with a voice is not universal outcome, as Metcalf and Simon failed to account for differences in individual personalities. What is Proprioceptive Writing? The definition from Proprioceptive Writing Centre website includes the following: Proprioceptive Writing is a method for facilitating emotional health, spiritual awakening, creative breakthroughs, and better writing. Proprioceptive Writing teaches you to listen to your thoughts with empathy and curiosity and reflect on them in writing, with the objective of achieving self-trust. Other frequently reported benefits include: deepened powers of attention, increased self-confidence, greater intimacy and spontaneity in relationships, enhanced emotional health, awakened spirituality. Through Proprioceptive Writing, people increase their creativity and feel their minds expand, one of life's greatest pleasures. (Proprioceptive Writing Center) Metcalf and Simon claim that each student they teach Proprioceptive Writing to believes “writing is profoundly linked to spiritual and mental health” (Intro. xxvi). Presumably then, people who do not share that belief, including myself, are not good candidates for succeeding with Proprioceptive Writing. According to Metcalf and Simon, Proprioceptive Writing provides a framework for organizing and facilitating self-examination (Intro. xxv). That may be true, but not everyone requires such a framework. I...
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...General Education and Arts & Sciences Req. Communications (9 cr.) Done: ENGL 1010 Crit Read and Expository Writing ENGL 1020 Crit Thinking and Argument Take one of the following (one of these must be taken and will count as the speech req, but not an Oral Intensive. If an additional one is taken it will count as Oral Intensive): SPCH 1300 General Speech SPCH 2300 Public Speaking SPCH 2320 Arg & Debate (meets A&S req) History (6 cr.) Done: HIST 2010 The United States to 1877 HIST 2020 The United States Since 1877 Using Information Technology (3 cr.) Done: CSCI 1100 or pass exam (schedule exam at: http://www.cs.etsu.edu/academics/signup) Science (8 cr.) Done: A sequence of 2 courses in the same field is required by A&S (e.g., biology). Psychology requires at least one biology course. Students can take two biology courses or two other lab courses and one biology. Take two of these BIOL or two other lab sciences in the same discipline and one of these BIOL: BIOL 1010-1011 Biology for Non-majors I BIOL 1020-1021 Biology for Non-majors I BIOL 1110-1111 Bio for majors I BIOL 1120-1121 Bio for majors II BIOL 1130-31 Bio for majors III Other lab science: Other lab science: Literature (3 cr.) Done: Take one of the following: ENGL 2030 Literary Heritage ENGL 2110 American Literature I ENGL 2120 American Literature II ENGL 2210 British Literature...
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...2015 Todd Marbury Dr. Lauren Goldstein Intro to Psychology June 7, 2015 2015 Todd Marbury Dr. Lauren Goldstein Intro to Psychology June 7, 2015 Retrospective Analysis of Personality Retrospective Analysis of Personality Through the years I wondered what made me change my personality towards the way I look at things but now I see why I drastically made these changes due to the different people and environments I have been. I have changed in too many ways to recount all of them, but a few I will list. In this essay I will discuss the aspect of my life that has and has not changed, analyze the role of nature and nurture within my personality and discuss why most memories are bias, which makes systemic scientific more valued than individual accounts. Psychologists strive to understand how personality develops as well as how it influences the way we think and behave. This area of psychology seeks to understand personality and how it varies among individuals as well as how people are similar in terms of personality. While there is no single agreed upon definition of personality, it is often thought of as something that arises from within the individual and remains fairly consistent throughout life. It encompasses all of the thoughts, behavior patterns, and social attitudes that impact how we view ourselves and what we believe about others and the world around us. Understanding personality allows psychologists to predict how people will respond in certain situations and...
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...its effect on the storyline and characters. I. Intro II. Symbol One: Location III. Symbol Two: Weather IV. Symbol Three: Colors V. Symbol Four: Green Light VI. Conclusion I. Intro a. Introduce what to expect in paper. b. Provide an overview of the symbols that will be analyzed. c. Mention the importance of symbols to a novel. II. Symbol One: Location a. Introduce the symbol of location. b. Explain importance of Valley of Ashes, East Egg, West Egg, New York City, etc. c. Analyze the purpose of location as a symbol (displays social class, conflict between locations, similarities and differences between characters) III. Symbol Two: Weather a. Introduce the symbol of weather. b. Explain importance of the hot summer days, rainy visit with Daisy, and the heat again during the drunken feud. c. Analyze the purpose of weather as a symbol (parallel to emotions and turn of events: heat held conflict, rain held disappointment or renewal). IV. Symbol Three: Colors a. Introduce the symbol of colors. b. Explain the importance of colors in relation to the story (emphasis on the color of clothing, perhaps focus on scene where Daisy cries at Gatsby’s beautiful clothes). c. Analyze the purpose of colors as a symbol (colors of clothing help to develop characters, at times showing personality traits not initially displayed). V. Symbol Four:...
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...GED 216 Intro to Sociology Unit 2 Exam Click Link Below To Buy: http://hwcampus.com/shop/ged-216-intro-sociology-unit-2-exam/ Multiple Choice Questions (Enter your answers on the enclosed answer sheet) 1. Carol Gilligan’s work on the issue of self-esteem in girls showed that a. girls begin with low self-esteem, but it gradually increases as they progress through adolescence. b. at all ages, girls have higher self-esteem than boys. c. at all ages, boys have higher self-esteem than girls. d. girls begin with high levels of self-esteem, which gradually decrease as they go through adolescence. 2. George Herbert Mead considered the self to be a. the part of an individual’s personality that is composed of self-awareness and self-image. b. the presence of culture within the individual. c. basic drives that are self-centered. d. present in infants at the time of their birth. 3. Mead placed the origin of the self on a. biological drives. b. genetics. c. social experience. d. the functioning of the brain. 4. According to Mead, social experience involves a. understanding the world in terms of our senses. b. the exchange of symbols. c. a mix of biological instinct and learning. d. acting but not thinking. 5. By “taking the role of the other,” Mead had in mind a. imagining a situation in terms of past experience. b. recognizing that people have different views of most situations. c. imagining a situation from another person’s point of view. d. trading...
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...Scientific Article 1 Intro to Psychology Risk-takers are smarter according to new study In a recent study using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), images taken of the brains of young men revealed major differences in what is called “white matter” between two separate groups of participants. The University of Turku in Finland under the direction of SINTEF claims young men that make quick decisions in risky situations have a highly developed neural network and are “smarter” than low risktakers. First each participant was given a personality test to assess the risk-taking propensity and susceptibility to peer influence. By doing this the researcher was able to separate the 17 right-handed, 18-19 year old males into two groups, high and low risk takers. The two groups reported to the Department of Radiology of the Turku University Hospital for two practice sessions. During the sessions they were shows a driving game with sets of 20 stop-light intersections. They learned how to play the game and then reported back for four testing sessions in an MRI scanner. The first two sessions were performed under a non-competition social setting and the last two sessions by surprise were under social pressure of a peer competition situation. Measurements were taken of the participants at each moment that decisionmaking took place wether to stop at the yellow light or try and make it through. Results showed that high risk-takers didn't hesitate for long before they...
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...U.S.A and Australia. Psychology is the only discipline, which over the past century has consistently and systematically investigated the issue of prejudice and race. Social psychology has a long tradition of empirical and theoretical research in this field and currently there are many social psychologists in Australia engaged in significant and timely research. This is no accident given the regions long and chequered history regarding race relations with the treatment of the Australian Aborigines has been likened to genocide. Currently there are a number of theoretical and conceptual psychological approaches, which both define and explain prejudice. Personality theories primarily locate race and prejudice within the intro-psychic domain of the individual. From this perspective, authoritarian-rearing practices, intolerance and intro psychic defence mechanisms are isolated as casual agents to a significant problem. There are several theories as to why people are prejudiced. The exploitation theory keeps a racial group in a subordinate social position. The scapegoating theory says that prejudice people believe that they are society’s victims. In this sense, exploiters abuse others and scapegoats feel they are being abused. Dr. Vance Locke and Dr. Lucy Johnston at the University of Canterbury have recently...
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...specific classes. I have highlighted, in yellow, the top five most influential classes that have inspired me in one way or another. CORE CLASSES Lecture Project Discussion Field Work Experimentation Research Senior Seminar x The Ancient World x Intro to Literature of the New Testament x Spanish I x Statistics for Social Sciences x Lifetime Fitness and Wellness x Music Appreciation x National Government x Survey of Math w/ Applications x Analysis of Text x New Student Seminar x Environmental Science x Development of Civilization x Intro to Speech Communication x Business Math x Composition I x MAJOR Lecture Project Discussion Field Work Experimentation Research Personality Theory and Assessment x Women and Crime x Intro to Philosophy x Techniques of Individual and Group Counseling x Psychology and Religion x Human Sexuality x Internship x Counseling Theories x Human Development x Addictive Behaviors x Abnormal Psychology x Intro to Human Services x Psychology Intro to Sociology x Gangs of America x Ancient Arts x Intro to Sociology x The very first semester I attended DMACC, I took Psychology. It sounded like a more difficult class, and I wasn’t sure I’d like it at all, but once I began the class, I found a new love. I realized that Psychology helped to make sense of all...
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...Clover Living in Chinatown, Calgary, Alberta Intro – General Clover Living in ChinaTown, in Calgary, Alberta, stands directly behind the historic Calgary Chinese United Church and is an integral part of Calgary’s Chinatown, a community with more than 100 years of history. Clover Living in Chinatown has established a deserved reputation as a highly desirable retirement home, designed for Chinese and other Oriental people who wish to age in a space of Chinese culture. Intro - Retirement Homes To retire is to move into a new chapter of your life, it is time to take joy in meaningful activities and leave the tiresome responsibilities of home ownership behind you. At Clover Living in Chinatown, we offer exceptional staff, accommodations that are second to none and a philosophy that puts you, and...
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...the desire to become more and more what one is, to become everything that one is capable of becoming." Abraham Maslow. Maslow's hierarchy of needs is a pyramid of needs starting with basic physiological needs and ending with self-actualization needs; basic needs must be met first. Hierarchy makes sense to me because it seems like a matter of putting priorities of life in order. Things happen in life that throw us as humans of our personal path of priorities and until we deal with the issue that throw us off our course we cannot get back on focus of achieving our original goals. We have to self motivated in order to stay focused on our potential. | As listed in Motivation and Emotion – Interactive Tutorial Pearson Learning Solutions Intro to Psychology: Maslow's series of needs are represented as a pyramid with the most basic needs for survival at the bottom and the highest needs at the top. The levels of the Maslow's hierarchy of needs, starting from the top, are listed below:Self-actualization needs: To find self-fulfillment and realize one's potentialAesthetic needs: Symmetry, order, and beautyCognitive needs: To know,...
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...English 102 – Intro. to Literature – SYLLABUS Campbell University –RTP Campus Prerequisites: English 101 Instructor: Susan Doody Term: Spring II March 13- May1 Phone: 919.661-8414 Evenings: Tuesday (BLENDED) Time: 5:15-7:30 pm E-mail: doodys@campbell.edu OR lovetoteach48@yahoo.com COURSE REQUIREMENTS Course Description: A course designed to enhance reading, writing, research, and critical thinking skills directed toward literary analysis. Prerequisite: English 101. Required Texts: • Backpack Literature: An Intro to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and Writing, X.J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia, eds., 4th ed. • Aaron, Jane E. LB Brief. 4th ed., Boston: Longman, 2010. Learning Outcomes: Goals: English 102 is designed to “enhance writing, research, and reading skills directed toward literary analysis.” Therefore, the student will learn to read carefully and critically by analyzing the elements of literature—plot, theme, characterization, etc. through class discussion, short papers and research. Since analysis is key to this course, class participation is imperative. Expectations of Students: Students are expected to participate in all phases of the class, including discussions, both in class and on the Bd discussion board. Required readings must be completed before class. Homework and other assignments are due on the dates noted in the "Assignments" of Blackboard. Specific pages and due dates will be posted...
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