Personality Reflection Paper

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Personality Reflection Paper

PSY/250

University of Phoenix

November 2, 2011

Personality Reflection

All men and women are similar and unique simultaneously because of their personality characteristics. There thousands of different personality characteristics and each individual’s personality is composed hundreds of those characteristics to varying degrees. Similarities and uniqueness in characteristics makes each person one of a kind and one of the crowd.

Personality is defined as the embodiment of physical, mental, emotional, and social traits of an individual. A personality is made up the characteristic patterns of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that make a person unique. (K. Cherry, 2011) I believe that this is the easiest way of defining personality. It reflects why the sum of our characteristics makes us different, but at the same time describes how we can be and are same.

Some believe that an individual’s personality defines the person or the type of a person they may become. Openness, extraversion, and neuroticism are the three basic traits that define personality features. Openness is the appreciation of imagination, art, emotion and variety different activities. Openness helps to overcome many internal fears though experiences, and can also lead to involvement in dangerous situations. Extraversion describes assertive people seeking exciting situations throughout the course of their life. Extraverts thrive when surrounded by other people and enjoy living as social butterflies; this type of personality feature helps become a well-liked person able to overcome most fears. Opposite of the first two personal features is neuroticism; the personality feature that involves negative emotional states. Neurotic persons have the tendency to view their surroundings as a stressful environment, often slipping into a bought of depression or moodiness.

Each of these features describes the personality...