This Assignment was to explore something significant that i learned while studying Psychology. How it applies to me, and how It is something that has been helpful and will be beneficial to myself in the future.
Significant Learning of Personality
On the first page of the Personality chapter it starts with the questions, “what makes you you?” a good question indeed, something I didn’t know was so complex, I knew that everyone has their own personality but I’ve never had such in interest to know why its that way. Personality is a pattern of enduring, distinctive thoughts, emotions, and behaviors that characterize the way an individual adapts to the world (King). I believe personality is something that is quite important, just as it says, it helps us adapt to the world, something we need to learn to survive.
When we started in this chapter it caught my attention, mostly because I was able to relate to it the most. Its like a puzzle, once you start putting the pieces together it starts making the picture clearer, until eventually you have the picture just as it is on the box. Each theory in the chapter helped explain a lot of reasons why my personality is what it is. It helped to put the puzzle pieces together.
As we went through learning about Personality, I also learned an important aspect. Not only does it help you understand who you are, but can also help you relate and understand others. Once we start to learn what another persons personality is like we can relate to them so much better. The Big Five Trait factors give a small perspective of what types of personalities you might come across, and good attributes to develop in your own personality.
Another thing that caught my attention was the Relationship between our Ego, Id, and Superego, how they all work together to bring out our individual personality. I wrote in my notes while in class, a strong ego, is important for personality, to balance out all those other forces(id/superego).
My Ego is constantly hard at work battling all my anxieties, I’m a very anxious person, but I’ve learned that’s not always a bad thing, my ego is just keeping that balance that I need.
The Two main Learning outcomes that I achieved throughout my learning in this section, is that I developed skills to understand and appreciate human differences, it really made clear how everyone is different in their own way, and if we want to relate to them we should understand who they are. Also helped me to think critically, and to be aware that knowledge is dynamic and builds on new evidence and alternative perspectives. There are so many ways to look at personality, and each way has its positives and negatives, but as I use them together It can really benefit me as I’m getting to now others and interact with people.
This chapter really grasped my attention and made psychology something that’s not just another subject, or a class I have to take, but something I can apply and use in my everyday life to associate with others and come to fully understand myself.
King, Laura, A. Experience
Psychology. 1st ed. New
York, NY: McGraw-Hill. 2010.
The Big Five Factors of Personality , Also know as O.C.E.A.N
