Personality Flashcards
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Personality
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Long-lasting, broad pattern of behavior. Like intelligence, it’s something you’re born with but is molded and changed over your life. Not good or bad, highly genetic unlike character.
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Character
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Is more important than personality. What you’re taught to be and what you decide to display as your values, is moreso your choice. Comes from habits and what you do (how you build it).
Whether character is good or bad is far more important than personality is.
3
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Four schools of thought about where personality comes from-
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- Psychodynamic
- Humanist
- Trait theory
- Social cognitive
4
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Psychodynamic personality theory
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