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Chapter 4: What is Personality?. Personality Determinants. Where does your personality come from? Heredity – so we’re born to be “just the way we are”? Environment – oh, so it’s the environment instead? Situation – or is it the situation that determines our personality??
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Personality Determinants • Where does your personality come from? • Heredity – so we’re born to be “just the way we are”? • Environment – oh, so it’s the environment instead? • Situation – or is it the situation that determines our personality?? So – what determines your personality???
The Big Five Model • The MBTI is “popular” but not well respected by academics • However, research DOES support the idea of “The Big Five”: 1) Extroversion 2) Agreeableness 3) Conscientiousness 4) Emotional Stability 5) Openness to Experience
What Are Emotions? AffectA broad range of emotions that people experience. EmotionsIntense feelings that are directed at someone or something. MoodsFeelings that tend to be less intense than emotions and that lack a contextual stimulus.