Personality Characteristics Essay

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Personality Characteristics Gary S Hanna PSYCH/504 March 31, 2012 Dr. Shelia Rapa Personality Characteristics My objective in this paper is to evaluate my personality characteristics. I will examine at least three different personality characteristics and apply my life experiences to explain how the characteristics evolved. I will assess how my early development stages, family, and social relationships, and educational background have affected my social and occupational decisions. People can be either extroverts or introverts, depending on the course of their actions; Thinking, Temperament, Detecting, Perception, fitting to their own information pathways; Assessing or Perceiving, depending on the manner in which they deal with received information (Pervin, John, & Cervone, 2005). During early childhood, I was an extrovert, faced to interact with the public at an early age. Working in my uncle’s grocery store, I was strongly encouraged to make small talk with customers when I was very young. It was a socialization process the children in my family became accustomed to. The children would work in the store, café, gas station, hair salon, or night club. I was born to be an extrovert, as practically my entire family; David Lykken would say, psychologist in the Minnesota Project. I was uninhibited, had a high stress level, thick-skinned, adventurous, and extremely outspoken. Some of these factors may be nice to have when interacting with certain people, but I had to tone it down when dealing with customers. My outspokenness had an effect on how people spent their money. Lykken, (1995), “Among traits found most strongly determined by heredity was leadership and surprisingly, traditionalism or obedience to authority” (para. 3). The culture in my family was not if you were going to work as a child but when. My personality characteristic developed

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