Interactionism.
Running tab: Interactionism | Interactionism | | | PSY/230 | 1/8/2013 |
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Interactionism I strongly believe culture has a huge impact on a person’s personality. A person is born into a specific culture and they grow into that culture accepting its idiosyncrasies both good and bad. A person learns how to speak the language if the specific culture they live in along with developing the mannerisms that correspond with that culture. From observing several friends over the holidays, I could see how people reacted to several different social experiences. With that being said, I believe a person’s resulting reaction was to the social experience. I observed my friends sitting around a table making small (but loud) talk, as any new member of the group entered, there were reactions to that individual. I believe there would be no adjustment or change in a person’s reaction without some type of change in the social experience. Out of the four positions of the nature of traits, I strongly agree with the behavioral disposition approach. I believe we respond to certain stimuli in certain ways. According to McAdams (2009), traits are the tendencies to act, think or feel in consistent ways that interact with external influences, such as cultural norms and situational variables, to influence a person’s functioning. My position is behavioral disposition which states traits exist as dispositions that exert a significant impact on behavior. My comparison is the Neurophysiological substrates which states, traits literally exist in the central nervous system.
Reference McAdams, D. P. (2008) The Person 5th ed.: John Wiley & Sons,
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Interactionism I strongly believe culture has a huge impact on a person’s personality. A person is born into a specific culture and they grow into that culture accepting its idiosyncrasies both good and bad. A person learns how to speak the language if the specific culture they live in along with developing the mannerisms that correspond with that culture. From observing several friends over the holidays, I could see how people reacted to several different social experiences. With that being said, I believe a person’s resulting reaction was to the social experience. I observed my friends sitting around a table making small (but loud) talk, as any new member of the group entered, there were reactions to that individual. I believe there would be no adjustment or change in a person’s reaction without some type of change in the social experience. Out of the four positions of the nature of traits, I strongly agree with the behavioral disposition approach. I believe we respond to certain stimuli in certain ways. According to McAdams (2009), traits are the tendencies to act, think or feel in consistent ways that interact with external influences, such as cultural norms and situational variables, to influence a person’s functioning. My position is behavioral disposition which states traits exist as dispositions that exert a significant impact on behavior. My comparison is the Neurophysiological substrates which states, traits literally exist in the central nervous system.
Reference McAdams, D. P. (2008) The Person 5th ed.: John Wiley & Sons,