We would be nothing without our personality. Maybe let’s say people had the same personality that would be boring. How would we communicate with each other with paper and pencil we wouldn’t really know their actions if they are sad or happy we would probably be like a doll it can’t really move its face or to frown most likely you would get bored to see the same reaction of face but really how would we know you are bored. Keep in mind personality is comprised of mind acting and feeling, and thinking and positive and negative behavior are part of personality.
What really is personality? “Personality makes us who we are. It influences nearly every aspect of our lives, from what we choose to do for a living to how we interact with our families to our choices of friends and romantic partners” (Cherry, n.d.). There are many theories about traits. “The terms you use to describe other people (and yourself) are called traits, relatively stable personal characteristics” (Huffman, 2012, pg. 458). There are people out there that are different and won’t be exactly like you. “Even identical twins are unique in this respect: twin number 1 will always be twin number 1 and will never know what it …show more content…
We begin our study with the brain.” (Huffman, 2012, pg.475). There are questions on how personality characteristics such as shyness occur or being aggressive but there are four major factors that influence personality. The four are Genetic factors and nonshared environmental factors and shared environmental factors and unknown factors. “Neurochemistry may explain why. Research has found a consistent relationship between sensation seeking and neurochemicals like monoamine oxidase (MAO), an enzyme that regulates levels of neurotransmitters such as dopamine (Lee, 2011;Zuckerman,1994, 2004.)” Dopamine can turn to be a drug abuse. (Huffman, 2012, pg.476). “Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other Laurence J. Peter” “behavioral Genetics attempts to determine the extent to which behavioral differences among people are due to genetics as opposed to environment.” Genetics have high correlation personality traits and but found little correlation to those not there real children that are adopted. “Researchers are careful not to overemphasize genetics.” Genetics has really controversial results. More research needs to be done and none is the correct one yet. (Huffman, 2012, pg.476). “No one personality theory explains everything we want to know about personality.” Each theory provides a different perspective in an individual develops distinctive set of