PSYC101 Week 2 Forum Topic - Personality Development

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In preparation for this Forum visit theBig Five Personality Quiz website at http://www.outofservice.com/bigfive/ and take its short quiz which assesses the five areas of the Big 5 Trait Theory of Personality. You will be asked about your perception of yourself in a variety of situations. Answer without thinking too much or trying to manipulate results by selecting particular answers.  When you have completed the quiz, you will be given a report on how you score in each of the five areas of personality.

After taking this short, interactive quiz, respond to the following questions.

enlightened Be sure to check before posting that you have answered all of the questions, that you are basing your statements on textbook readings where required and that your post meets the general posting requirements located under the “View Full Description” link below the main Forum heading.

What did the Big Five personality quiz tell you about who you are?  Answer this question using  the language of the “OCEAN” report the website provides after quiz completion, but do not just copy the report results into your post; instead paraphrase (restate in your own words) the results.

Do you think the results accurately or inaccurately portray how you see your personality? Using specifics, explain why or why not?

Thinking back to your experiences growing up, what would you say were the biggest influences on your personality development?  In answering this question, relate specific aspects of your personality described in the personality quiz OCEAN results to particular growing up influences.

After answering the above questions, finish your initial post by completing the three below statements, describing as you complete them the key features of the theory of personality you select, naming the theorist who developed the theory, and explaining, matching those specifics to your particular personality characteristics, why you selected that particular theory.

Another theory of personality discussed in Chapter 2 of our textbook that strikes me as applicable to how I see my personality is ... 

This theory’s main concepts are… 

These concepts related directly to the following characteristics of my personality…

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