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PSY DQ WK 7 INS

Refer to Figure 2 on p. 349 of Psychology and Your Life. Evaluate the Big Five trait approaches to personality. Which personality trait best describes you and why?

For the last two decades, the most influential traits approach contends that five traits or factors-called the “Big Five” – lie at the core of personality. The five factors, described I are openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism (emotional stability). Using modern factor analytic statistical techniques, a host of researchers have identified a similar set of five factors that underlie personality. After reading and evaluation the Big Five Traits approaches personality. I come to notice that the one that describes me is the openness to experience trait. I am a very independent person because there are many things that I had to learn and do on my own as growing up into adulthood. Independent come with lots of responsibilities with one’s everyday life. Meeting the responsibilities within my family concerns and needs would be of great preferences to me. Being an imaginative person I like to imagine what would happen if I did something this way or what the response would be. Being an imaginative person this allow me to let my mind wonder wild and be creative while doing so. I am always open to experiences, because if I do not experience things I would not know what the outcome would be. Or what it would be like to experience different things. I think that life is all about experience because this happens to be a way of learning new things and adventures as well. I seems to have a preference of a mixture of what I do on a daily bases because it is routine for me and I am showing my independent.

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