Debra Type B Personality

This story is about a University of California, Irvine student named Debra. Debra knew that personality can be a factor in academic success, but only in terms of how one applies it in relation to their environment and resources. She did not think that having a Type A or Type B personality had a direct role in academic success, but did assume that it had a role in how effective certain academic strategies were. As a Type B personality, she took it upon herself to master awareness of personality theory, and to use this knowledge to optimize strategies used for academics, thereby maximizing her powers as a student. Debra turned to her Personality Psychology class resources to learn how she could use her Type B personality to her advantage, wondering …show more content…
I selected the topic of how personality is a factor in academic success, and whether being introverted or extroverted has a role in academic success, to learn more about how personality factors can be applied to recommended learning strategies. While I do not feel that people have specific learning styles that match with recommendations for courses of action in studying or doing schoolwork, I do believe that people have physiological bases for having preferences and benefitting from one approach to schoolwork versus another. I intend to demonstrate this through my writing, and believe that the existing literature that is available on the topic shows that there are biological, neurological, and other psychological bases for specific approaches to academic studies to be more effective in some people than in others. As I believe that these aspects of personality are important to some degree, I do not believe that many of the recommended approaches to studying, doing school work, or even conduct during lectures apply to all people equally. While this is the basis for learning style arguments, I believe that there is a wider biological basis for different preferences, and that the traditional learning style categorizations do not give sufficient consideration to personality dynamics. The story is a reflection of one woman’s approach to academic research and trying to understand personality theorizations in a way that can actually help her improve her approach to academics. I would like to see myself and other students succeed in the same way that Debra