due Sat at 9AM

ASHLEY

After completing the personality quiz, I have to say that I didn't learn much that I didn't already know about myself and what I did learn didn't come as much of a surprise. With that being said my results of the quiz according to the OCEAN report state that I am somewhat in the middle in the openness to new experiences section, but it also states that I tend to shy away from seeking new experiences. In the next section, which is conscientiousness, I also scored somewhat in the middle indicating that I am neither organized or unorganized. In the extraversion section I scored on the lower end, which was expected, indicating that I am an introvert and typically enjoy spending time alone or with ones I am close and comfortable with. Next was the agreeableness section, which stated that I am neither extremely forgiving or irritable (which actually surprised me given that I always thought I was too forgiving). Lastly, came the neuroticism section, which stated that I am an anxious person and tend to over worry about many things. I do believe that these results accurately describe me and my personality as I have always been shy when meeting new people and I do tend to enjoy doing things on my own or with people I am close to rather than large groups of people. Although working in the field of child development has definitely helped me overcome a lot of my shyness. Growing up I was always very shy in school, although I am not too sure where that all came from since both my brother and sister are both very outgoing people. 

Another theory of personality described in chapter 2 that strikes me as applicable to how I see my personality is Sigmund Freud's theory of psychoanalysis. 

The theory's main concepts are that many personality traits that adults have are related to childhood experiences that they went through, good or bad. These experiences often lead to unconscious feelings, thoughts, behavior, and habits later on in one's adult life that they often times don't realize are related to their past experiences.

These concepts related directly to the following characteristics of my personality: My easiness to forgive people is related to my childhood and that my mother would never allow us to go to bed mad or upset with anyone in our family. She always taught us to work things through and never end the day with bad feelings towards anyone. I also believe my shyness is related to an experience in my past, although I am not quite sure where it started or came from. 

JOSHUA

This w very accurate when It came down to the type of person that I am. It is almost like I was writing about myself. It is amazing how a computer  can tell you so much about about yourself just by answering a few little questions about yourself. The environment that I grew up in is what made me have the personality that I have today.

Openness to Experience/Intellect. For the first letter of the ocean format it is O. As a started to read my evolution I notice that for this particular Area it says that I am closed middle according to my scores. I honestly do not believe that. I say the because as a leader in the United States Army i need to be approachable so that my soldiers feel ok with coming straight to me about any issues, problems, or concerns that they might have.I am very close minded. I say that because I really do not deviate from what I have learned in the past. Why I don’t not know the answer. Even when I spent w whole year in Korea I did not go out at all to explore or look at anything excited. IT also said that I am not creative, and that is 100% correct.

Conscientiousness- I know that this is wrong because I am very organized. In my eyes and head everything has a place for it to go.

Extraversion- In this part of the book it says that I shy away from social conflict and news in the world today. That is not true because I am always trying to see what is gong on in the world that I live in.

Agreeablenes- Here it reads that it is easy for me to criticize others. I wouldn't call it that, I would just say that I am big on every one doing the right thing the first time so when I see someone not doing that I call them out on it.

Neuroticism- This one I do not know what to say about it because it said I and never nervous or clam.To me this does not really make sense because I do not get how a person can be clam and nervous at the same time.

Psychoanalysis theory is the theory I choose because it pretty takes everything that makes up a person and base their personalty off of that.Carl Jung is the bright mind that came up with this theory.

JAMES

After taking the personality quiz my results did not really surprise me. There were of course some things that I do not agree with but A lot of it was spot on. I scored very low with the openness to experience and intellect. This is the one that I do not agree with all the way. I do like familiar situations and experiences but I consider myself open to new things and ideas. I scored high with the category of conscientiousness and I think that is correct because I like to stay organized and I feel I am reliable. The test stated that I scored low on the extroversion area and I agree, I like to spend my time quietly and sometimes alone. I do however like to spend a lot of my time with my children and wife. I am not a fan of crowds though. On the agreeableness area of the test I did score low, I am not sure I agree completely here because I feel like I take a lot of aggravation before speaking up but I do feel irritable when people around me can be so thoughtless. I also scored high in the neuroticism category and even though I would like to not agree with this I find myself over thinking different scenarios and thinking of how I will react to them. I do worry a lot and stress about things that have not even happened yet. 

The things that influenced me growing up would be my parents, music, baseball, school, and books. Baseball for instance helped with my reliability because of its teaching of discipline and team work. I like the quiet because I always have had migraines growing up. Honestly I am not sure why the other things are in my personality, I cannot pinpoint them to a specific experience but I am sure over time everything played a part. 

A theory that was discussed in chapter 2 of our text was the social-cognitive learning theory. I feel like it goes along with my personality pretty well because the theory's main concepts are based upon how the persons temperaments, habits, and beliefs shape how they respond to a situation. In return the aspects of the situation also influence our temperaments, beliefs, and habits. When I played baseball for example we would learn a play and over time through making mistakes we would get better. We would learn how to have structure and reliability.