PSYC 2600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Extraversion And Introversion, Developmental Psychology, Nomothetic
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We are unique in this sense: as we move through the world, we are like a snowflake, we can be like some other people, we are like all other people, and finally we are like no others. 1. 1 define personality: personality is a usual pattern of someone"s beliefs, feelings, and thoughts. They are tendencies that we all share, but we still have individual differences: there might be things about a person that seems very obvious, some traits are easy to see (they are manifest). Are we somehow determined to have a specific personality: genetics is very molecular. Personality is shaped by: genetics, peers, parents, birth order (first/second/only child), and your culture: personality shapes our lives in many ways. It determines whether you think skydiving or reading a book is more fun and predicts whether you usually arrive 5 minutes early or 15 minutes late: the key word here is usually.
