Personality - AS PE
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- Personality - AS PE
- Personality is the sum total of an individuals characteristics which make a human unique.
- Trait Perspective
- This suggests that personality is made from a range of different secondary traits from parental genes.
- Maintains that all behaviour is innate and genetically programme.
- Stable
- Enduring and consistent in all situations
- For example - an individual may have a natural inellation towards ambition, competition and aggression.
- Drawbacks
- Behaviour is not always predictable.
- Influenced by the environment and other people have on the shaping of the personality.
- Behaviour = Function of Personality.
- 4 personality types
- Extrovert
- Affiliate well to offer people
- Outgoing and social able
- Become aroused more slowly than introvert.
- Low sensitivity of the reticular activating systems.
- Introvert
- Tend to be shy and reserved
- Prefer isolation from others
- Become aroused more quickly than extroverts.
- High sensitivity of the reticular activating systems.
- Neurotic
- Display extreme and unpredictable emotions in the form of mood swings.
- Moods are unreliable
- They experience high degrees of stress
- Recovery from stress is slow
- Stable
- Display predictable emotions in appropriate situations
- Moods are predicatable
- Tends not to experience intense stress.
- Recovery from stress is rapid.
- Extrovert
- Interactionist Approach
- Based on the work of 'Hollander 1967'
- Psychological core - most internal of the personality levels and is thought to be the true self.
- Typical Responses - Are changeable and are learned behaviours. they can become modified as the person responds to environmental situations.
- Role related behaviour - this is the most external of the personality levels.
- Behaviour = Function of personality X Environment
- Critically evaluating personality profiling. Proof, Evidence, Subjectivity, Invalidity, Modification, Reliability and Stereotyping.
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