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Personality
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trait perspective
The trait theory of personality formation suggests that personality is made up of a range of different secondary traits inherited from parental genes. The trait view, therefore, maintains that all behaviour is innate and genetically programmed. There are 2 theories that belong to this theory: personality types, narrow band approach
Drawback - behaviour is not always predictable. It does not account for the fact that people adapt their behaviour in response to a particular environmental situations. Similarly, the influence that the environment and other people have on the shaping of personality is not considered.
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- Each person has a stable long lasting disposition to display certain behaviours, attitudes and emotions. Personality does not change over time. E.g. An aggressive person will always stay aggressive.
- An individuals traits predispose them to act in a certain way. The situation they are in has a minimal effect. E.g. an anxious person will be anxious irrespective of playing in a big match or speaking in front of an audience. It is suggested that people cannot help the way that they act because personality is determined at birth depending upon the characteristics inherited by a child from its parents.
- Each person has a different set of characteristics at varying strengths resulting in a unique pattern for each person. These are all arranged in a hierarchy with the strongest at the top and the weakest at the bottom. We are most likely to display our strongest traits and least likely to display our weakest traits. This results in an endless variety of human personalities.
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narrow band approach
Type A - characterised by impatient, high levels of stress , likes control.
Type B - characterised by relaxed, tolerant, less prone to stress, non competitive
Personality - The term personality is derived from the word ‘persona’ which was a mask in Greek drama. This implies that a person may give the appearance of being unlike their true self.