personality

UNIVERSITY OF ZIMBABWE
DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY
NAME:

CHARLES NYUNGU

REGISTRATION NUMBER:

R115700F

PROGRAM:

H.P.S III

COURSE:

PERSONALITY

LECTURER:

MRS CHIVASA/MR JAVANGWE

ASSIGNMENT TITLE: Discuss the influence of biological and environmental factors on personality development?

DUE DATE:

16th APRIL 2014

Personality, according to Winnie and Gittinger (1973), is a dynamic and organized set of characteristics possessed by a person that distinctively influences his or her cognitions, motivations, emotions , and behaviors in numerous circumstances. Personality can also refer to the array of thoughts, feelings, social adjustments, and behaviors that are regularly displayed over time that strongly influences one 's beliefs, self-perceptions, ideals, and attitudes. It also predicts individuals’ reactions to other people, problems, and stress.
Personality is alleged to be influenced fundamentally by either, genetics and biology, or by environment and experiences. Modern research implies that most personality attributes are based on the joint influence of genetics and environment (Cloninger, 1993). The paper below is going to further elaborate on how biological and environmental factors influence the development of personality.

According to, Keltikangas-Jarvinen and Jokela (2010) It has been normally acknowledged that complex mental entities like personality are as a result of an interaction between genetic
(biological) and environmental factors. The approach to this stable view stressing the joint effect of genes and environment has, however, not been easy in personality psychology. A common division of possible determinants of personality separates "nature" from "nurture."
On the one hand, people might be who they are because of their biological nature, that is, because of biological features that they inherited or their personality may reflect their nurturing, that is, experiences in family and in society

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