Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Reading Response 5
The topic I’d like to research for essay three is personality. My hypothesis is that people, for the most part, do not contribute to the formation of their personalities; they are shaped by the environment and genetics. I think an individual’s environment contributes a significant amount to personality formation and I’d like to research just how much a particular environment can impact one’s personality. I am already familiar with many psychological theories contributing to personality development, but I am going to have to further research these theories and study experiments that have been conducted on personality. I’m going to need to find out the major factors contributing to personality development, and whether or not my hypothesis or the hypotheses of others have been already been proven right or wrong. In terms of a research plan, I’ll begin by listing everything I already know about personality development, including theories, books I’ve read, and what I’ve witnessed firsthand through the media. The sources I plan to use are psychology textbooks, journal articles detailing experiments or other personality hypotheses, and psychological databases. I plan on using the library for most of my research, but I will probably use internet databases and online journals as well. From these sources, I will determine how much information supports or goes against my hypothesis.
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Personality. I think you should be more specific and clarify what you mean by that. I personally dont even know whats the formal definition of 'personality'. Does it include temperament? Does it include attitude? Values?
ReplyDeleteAlso, don't people count as environment? I mean, the interactions people have on each other each day definitely influences on the kind of environment people are placed in. If I was exposed to people who were serious all the time, wouldn't that seriousness rub off and thus I become a more serious person?
It sounds like an interesting topic to me. I have no idea about how personalities work. Psy major? It would be more convincing if you plan to use the library as your source of research than you use google.com. Hopefully I get to take a look of your essay.
ReplyDeleteI hope you know a lot about personality because be careful, its a really large subject. Maybe you could narrow it down to a particular attribute or specically personality and the environment, but either way I think you have a good start to think of what your paper will entail.
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