Kinesiology 2276F/G Study Guide - Final Guide: List Of Portal Characters, High Intensity Training, Big Five Personality Traits

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If one engages in regular exercise over a considerable period of time, it may have an influence on their personality in a more positive manner. Underlying, relatively stable psychological structures and processes that organize human experience and shape a person"s actions and reactions to the environment. Twins have many similarities but can have very different personalities. Personality core: developed from early environmental interactions, reflective of who we are; least amenable to change. Role-related behaviours: (situation-specific: variable, daily behaviours influenced by the particular context we are in, most easily changed (least stable) Assumption that if you possess one of these somatotypes, more likely to behave a certain way. People who look at the relationship between somatotype and characteristics, get small-moderate correlations (0. 3-0. 4) relationship to some extent but it is not that strong: so people tend to gravitate more towards trait theories think it"s better explained. Emphasis is placed on the person rather than on the situation of the environment.