The assignment is to choose only two of my classmate's post and reply to their post. One paragraph is enough for each of my classmates. Because it is like a discussion post try to be informal and use words like ( I agree/disagree, I like your points on..., I found your post really interesting, you have a good point..., when I read your post I..., I believe that ....) something like that (using the "I" word)
The question was:
Attachment, temperament, Erikson's stages, trait theory, the Big Five - the chapter covered a lot of theories about how personality develops throughout the lifespan. These include developmental stages as well as factors, both inherited and environmental, that contribute to how we interact with the world. Considering the information in the chapter, which ideas support the notion of a stable personality? Which give more emphasis to environmental factors (e.g., caregiving) and life events? How do you use this information to make sense of the nature of personality development?
Your answer was: (or mine)
Several arguments have been made trying to discuss the stability of an individual’s personal traits throughout his/her lifetime. Although the notion of stability lies on the definition of individual personality which focuses on the day to day habitual pattern of behaviors, way of thinking and the reactions of certain occurrences, stability does not concentrate on the unchanging instances. The behaviors of the adults tend to be more stable as compared to that of kids since the young generation are encountering several issues in the environ that in one way or the other changes their personality. Time interval, sex, ethnicity, education, and secular trends are some of the ideas that work in support of the notion of a stable personality.
Most personality attributes change in predictable ways through the lifespan. The big five personality traits are directly associated with individuals’ environmental values. Traits that are correlated with a positive outcome such as conscientiousness increases with age. Personality traits are attributes that are becoming more stable with age. This stability is well affected by the surrounding environment. Active person-environment transactions occur where individuals interact with different environments and experiences that are consistent with the characteristics of their personality. Individuals gain more autonomy to select their own environment as the transition from their childhood to adulthood.
The nature of personality development is continuously changing throughout the individual lifetime. For instance, considering the sex difference of people, boys are mostly tough-minded individuals and always work towards winning, whereas girls are quite and major their focus on the personal appearance that is why girls have a sense of art in their lifetime. therefore, implies that the differences among individuals play an important role in the development of personality. As one grows, they get used .
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1. The assignment is to choose only two of my classmate's post
and reply to their post. One paragraph is enough for each of my
classmates. Because it is like a discussion post try to be
informal and use words like ( I agree/disagree, I like your
points on..., I found your post really interesting, you have a
good point..., when I read your post I..., I believe that ....)
something like that (using the "I" word)
The question was:
Attachment, temperament, Erikson's stages, trait theory, the Big
Five - the chapter covered a lot of theories about how
personality develops throughout the lifespan. These include
developmental stages as well as factors, both inherited and
environmental, that contribute to how we interact with the
world. Considering the information in the chapter, which ideas
support the notion of a stable personality? Which give more
emphasis to environmental factors (e.g., caregiving) and life
events? How do you use this information to make sense of the
nature of personality development?
Your answer was: (or mine)
Several arguments have been made trying to discuss the
stability of an individual’s personal traits throughout his/her
lifetime. Although the notion of stability lies on the definition
of individual personality which focuses on the day to day
habitual pattern of behaviors, way of thinking and the reactions
of certain occurrences, stability does not concentrate on the
unchanging instances. The behaviors of the adults tend to be
more stable as compared to that of kids since the young
generation are encountering several issues in the environ that in
one way or the other changes their personality. Time interval,
sex, ethnicity, education, and secular trends are some of the
ideas that work in support of the notion of a stable personality.
Most personality attributes change in predictable ways through
2. the lifespan. The big five personality traits are directly
associated with individuals’ environmental values. Traits that
are correlated with a positive outcome such as
conscientiousness increases with age. Personality traits are
attributes that are becoming more stable with age. This stability
is well affected by the surrounding environment. Active person-
environment transactions occur where individuals interact with
different environments and experiences that are consistent with
the characteristics of their personality. Individuals gain more
autonomy to select their own environment as the transition from
their childhood to adulthood.
The nature of personality development is continuously changing
throughout the individual lifetime. For instance, considering the
sex difference of people, boys are mostly tough-minded
individuals and always work towards winning, whereas girls are
quite and major their focus on the personal appearance that is
why girls have a sense of art in their lifetime. therefore, implies
that the differences among individuals play an important role in
the development of personality. As one grows, they get used to
these activities and develop a stable personality in later days of
their life..
The classmate's answers:
Oussama’s answer:
The ideas that support the notion of a stable personality, to me,
would be Erickson's 8 stages and the Big Five, since both of
them factor in both the inherited and environmental aspects that
may affect us throughout our life spans. Between the two,
researchers have deemed the Big Five as being more stable
throughout adulthood, and Erickson's 8 stages give more of an
emphasis to life event and environmental factors, since what a
child needs in order to move to the next stage in a healthy
manner relies heavily on their surroundings and the way they
grow up.
3. These two theories make the most sense to me due to the fact
that the Big Five is focused more on traits (curious vs. cautious)
and Erikson's stages discuss the two basic emotions that a child
may develop due to the environment they are in (supportive
parents breed initiative kids while controlling parents breed
guilty kids). These two complete one another and due to that,
the nature of personality development makes sense because it's
clear that the environment has a strong effect on how a child
grows, but there are also certain innate traits.
When it comes down to it, the environment can affect your
growth (having or being in an abusive relationship, romantic or
otherwise), but your innate trait can also either accept or reject
the effects of the environment (a person who is highly open and
accepting of people find it more difficult to get out of abusive
relationships whereas a person who is disagreeable would put
their self interest above others and may find it easier to get out
of an abusive relationship). These two theories help in
understanding the nature of how we grow since they create a
basic understanding of the way we work, since our personalities
are never stagnant and whatever was messed up in one of
Erickson's stages can get fixed in one of the other stages,
similarly as to how, as we grow older, our innate traits can
grow, too, and manifest into other traits.
Gaby’s answer:
The idea of different styles of attachment (ex: avoidant
attachment pattern) gives more emphasis on environmental
factors, particularly the relationship between mothers and their
infants. Patterns of attachment are heavily influenced by
parental roles, especially in soothing distraught infants.
Temperament is strongly led by genetic influences, as it is
displayed from the time of birth, however, it can be influenced
by the environment. Temperament tends to be stable throughout
development. Erikson’s stages of development suggest that
development relies heavily on environmental factors. For
4. example, whether a child becomes trustful or mistrustful largely
depends on whether or not their needs are met by their
caretakers, according to Erikson. Trait theory (The Big Five)
suggests that all people have certain traits and they differ in
intensity among a population. These traits are stable and
enduring. The concept of there being certain traits across all
people suggests that traits are genetic, to begin with; they are in
all of us. The intensity of these traits is what varies and those
differences can be environmental or genetically based.
Jessica’s answer:
Not only does inherited traits help create ones personality but
the environment and what one person is surrounded by plays a
huge role in development of personality. For starters,
attachment during infancy may influence relationships later on
in life. There are 4 major attachment patterns. First the secure
attachment pattern is a style of attachment in which children use
the mother as a kind of home base and are at ease when she is
present; when she leaves, they become upset. This is a very
common pattern. In contrast, the avoidant attachment pattern is
a style of attachment in which children do not seek proximity to
the mother; after the mother has left, they seem to avoid her
when she returns. Next the ambivalent attachment pattern is a
style of attachment in which children display a combination of
positive and negative reactions to their mother. Lastly, the
disorganized-disoriented attachment pattern is a style of
attachment in which children show inconsistent, often
contradictory behavior. After research, its believed that a secure
attachment at the age of one show fewer psychological
difficulties at older ages, also more socially and emotionally
competent later on. But, that doesn’t mean infants without a
secure attachment will have difficulties later on. Temperament
is affected by ones environment, referring to how well children
behave. Temperament is reflected on activity level and
5. irritability. Children with low activity level and low irritability
do particularly well in an environment because their able to
explore which leads to them directing their own behavior (less
temperamental). On the other hand, say you have a child with
high activity level and high irritability, that child may be more
temperamental due to channeling their energy in particular
directions. Erikson theory of psychosocial development has
eight different stages. The first stage is trust vs. mistrust. This
takes place the first 18 months of life where the child develops
a form of trust or mistrust depending on the caretaker meeting
the child’s needs. The nest is the autonomy vs. shame and doubt
stage. Here the child develops a form of independence but might
be restricted based on parenting techniques (strict or not). The
third stage is initiative vs. guilt stage. This is the preschool
period where the child faces conflict between the desire to act
independently of their parents and the guilt that comes from the
unintended consequences of their actions. Moving into
childhood and adolescence, we start with industry vs. inferiority
stage. The period from age 6 to 12 characterized by a focus on
efforts to attain competence in meeting the challenges presented
by parents, peers, school, and other complexities of the modern
world. Next is Identity vs. identity confusion stage. This is the
period during which teenagers seek to determine what is unique
and distinctive about themselves. Here the teen may explore
different roles in order to find out who they are but they may
also adopt socially inappropriate roles and fail to forge an
acceptable identity. At you adulthood, you move onto the next
stage, which is intimacy vs. isolation stage. The focus here is to
form and develop close relationships with others. In contrast,
difficulty during this stage may lead to someone being isolated
and fearful of relationships. Next is the generatively vs.
stagnation stage. This stage is during middle adulthood in which
people consider their contributions to family and society. The
final stage is ego-integrity vs. despair stage. This is
characterized by the process of looking back over one’s life,
evaluating it, and coming to terms with it. I believe each and
6. every one of these stages are stable keys to development but
they do share weakness. Some people who contribute to the
more negative side may not ever come out of that stage. This is
more common than people think. Earlier mentioned, genetics
and the environment shape someone’s personality. Research
specialists developed the Big Five personality traits called
OCEAN. These traits are Openness, Conscientiousness,
Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism.
The stability of personality traits over a life span is based on
consistency. The personality traits that children hold may
manifest themselves in different ways over the life span but the
particular constellation of traits that describes an individual is
fairly consistent. Even though genetics play an important role I
determining personality, the environment tends to reinforce
those traits. Each of these theories describes many good points
based on personality development. This just shows how every
situation in life, from newborn to death, plays a key role on
creating who a person is. I believe that when it comes to the
mind, there is always room for growth.
Fiona’s answer:
I have done a lot of research on the Big Five theory because this
theory is what the Myers Briggs Personality Type Indicator test
is based on. Overall, you should never really change personality
types. The Myers Briggs test, for example, will give you the
percentages you are of each trait. So, you may vary over the
years in the percentages of the trait, but you should never really
change traits; all that should change is the way you demonstrate
your personality traits or the degree to which you act upon your
traits. The Big Five theory supports this idea - that a stable
personality is one that does not fluctuate largely from childhood
to adulthood, only the degree to which your traits show
fluctuate.
Your environmental factors can influence your personality and
its consistency, but again, should not change it altogether;