Personality Development – Flashcards
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Our personalities are not influenced by whether or not we have brothers, sisters, both, or neither.
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Culture effects personality traits through:
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Competitiveness, individualism, and assertiveness
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Principal factors that social scientist see influencing personality and behavior are:
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Heredity, birth order, parents, and the cultural environment
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An aptitude is
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* The capacity to learn a particular skill or acquire a particular body of knowledge.
* A natural talent for music or art.
* Learned as well as inherited.
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According to the information presented in the lecture, what can be said about personality?
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* It is the behaviors, attitudes, beliefs, and values of a person.
* It can develop throughout a person's life.
* It affects how a person reacts and adjusts in his or her environment.
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Personality traits determine
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* How we adjust to our environment and how we react in specific situations.
* Each individual's own way of interacting with other people and his/her social environment.
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Heredity is
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The transmission of genetic characteristics from parents to children.
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Personality may be influenced by:
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- Birth order
- Characteristics of parents
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Cultural environments determine the basic types of personalities that will be found in a society.
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Subcultural differences, i.e. the type of neighborhood in which an individual is raised, also affect personality.
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