Pesonality Reflctions
Personality Reflection using the textbook, the university Library, the Internet, and/or other resources, answer the following questions. Your responses to each question will vary but overall should be 700- to 1,050-words in length.
How would you define personality?
It is based on a few inherited traits, but mostly it is how a person builds on that, to learn a sure way, interact a sure way, solve issues a sure way, etc. Personality is the one-of-a-kind way an individual has learned to deal with the challenges of life and work.
It is the general trend of how a person thinks and behaves. Every persona Is one-of-a-kind. There’s no exactly Identical personalities. This Is because no people are similar and no people grow up under the same conditions with the same experiences and decisions. Patterns of thought and action are ingrained, and the sum total is an individual’s persona. Persona is of the ways a person is one-of-a-kind. Separate from persona are knowledge, skills, values, motivations, memories, resources, and strengths of character.
What are some key personality features that define you?
I am funny, giving, loving, caring, nurturing, kind, ambitious, and motivated. I love to learn and communicate with people. I strive for the best in anything and everything that I do. Personally, I am a cross between my mother and father, and It shows greatly. I Like to do construction and hand work, which Is a skill that comes from both parents, I am creative Like my mother: and smart Like both of my parents. My skill and ease to learn new technology, is something else that I gathered from my father.
What key concepts or “constructs” are used to explain your personality?
Personality consists of “traits”, which are individual differences that are stable over time. That Is, they don’t change day to day, or change much over the course of your life. The most common personality theory these days is commonly called the Big Five, which uses the acronym OCEAN to remember the five factors.
The five factors are:
- Openness to Experience: degree to which you are interested in new things, learning, etc.
- Conscientiousness: degree to which you are reliable, follow through on things
- Extroversion: degree to which you are outgoing and sociable
- Agreeableness: degree debility.
- Degree to which you experience negative emotions.
Other traits related to personality include: Self-esteem (general sense of your worth as a person) Intelligence Achievement motivation Type A or B (Type As are competitive and hard driving; Type Bi’s are more laid back and not as ambitious)
Are your personality features consistent or do they change according to the situation?
For the most part, my personality features are the same; my mood is usually consistent as well. Although, I do have mood changes when angered, hurt, or upset.
As any of us humans do. For example, I was engaged to be married, I found my ex fiance©e always in his phone. One night, while he was asleep. I checked his phone, only to find approximately 50 numbers of different women he was engaged in various conversations with, I called off the wedding and broke up with him.
Have you ever taken a personality test before? If so, what was your reaction to the analysis? If not, what would you expect a proper test to measure?
I have taken one before, I do not recall what the results were. My reaction, was normal.
I was not surprised by the accuracy of the results or the test for that matter. I expect the test to measure my ability to adapt to change, being responsible, managing money, time management, and personality traits.
What would make a personality test reliable and valid?
The accuracy of any assessment measure can be quite complicated, with some tests requiring hundreds of statistical analyses Just to give you a few simple numbers. There are two statistics, however, that every professionally published assessment technique must provide in order to accepted as ‘good’ tests: reliability and validity.
