Assessment: Personality Development

Assessment: Personality Development

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Assessment: Personality Development

Write a  paper that examines the influences of traits—such as trait theory—and biology—such as temperament—on personality development. Answer the following questions in your paper:

• How does the gene-environment interaction influence personality?
• Is culture a factor in personality expression?
• What do twin studies show us about the inheritability of personality?
• What characteristics of temperament are stable over time and contribute to our adult personality?
• Are specific characteristics consistent over situation and over time?

Include an explanation of how the following personality models may be adapted to account for variation in the personal, societal, and cultural factors discussed in your paper:

• Biological model
• Five-factor trait theory
• Temperament model of personality

Personality development is the relatively enduring pattern of the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that distinguish individuals from one another.^[1] The dominant view in the field of personality psychology today holds that personality emerges early and continues to change in meaningful ways throughout the lifespan.^[2]

Adult personality traits are believed to have a basis in infant temperament, meaning that individual differences in disposition and behavior appear early in life, possibly even before language or conscious self-representation develop.^[3] The Five Factor Model of personality has been found to map onto dimensions of childhood temperament,^[4] suggesting that individual differences in levels of the “big five” personality traits (neuroticism, extraversion, openness to experience, agreeableness, and conscientiousness) are present from young ages.^[5]