Reflection Paper On The 's ' The Winter Survival Exercise '

I have often considered myself to be an extroverted introvert. I saw myself as the perfect blend of both my father’s and my mother’s

A psychological force that shaped my personality from childhood was that I was a realist and more conscious of the real world than most of my peers. My perception of the world as a child was more adult like than Disney sugar coated. I've always taken a realistic approach to life.

The article was written by Sharon Begley, who is a science writer. It published on December 1, 2008, and it has been illustrated by Harry Campbell for Newsweek. We always think our personality is related to our genes, which is stable or cannot be changed. However, Begley assume we can change our personality as we grow up. It depends on environment and our parents. They both play a great role in shaping our personality.

Dr. Robert Best’s lecture here at Winthrop was on the topic of genetics. The question at hand was, “Can your parent’s behavioral characteristics be passed down through genetics?” Genetics are essentially the blueprints to each and every one of us. Our characteristics are coded by our genes, however, do genes affect every aspect of us? When looking at the common book, The Glass Castle, it seems apparent that certain traits like intelligence and creativity can be passed through genes, but not necessarily affect behavior and personality.

In terms of personality, which parent are you most like—your mother or your father—and in what ways? Then, discuss how, if at all, your answers may help to shed light on the “nature” versus “nurture” debate.

I’ve always believed that life’s experiences shaped personalities. Things like being the youngest child of four, an athlete or living in a rural middle-class area. But the more I reflected on things that have happened to me the more I came to believe that who I am might have nothing to do with external stuff, maybe it was all predetermined.

My Birth Order is definitely the most significant factor that has affected my personality. In contrast to many other only children who came to be extroverts as a result of being alone, I became very much introverted because of how comfortable I became with being alone in comparison to large groups of people. I became imaginative as I learned how to entertain myself by reading books, drawing, and even at times playing board games against myself. I like to think that as an only child, the amount of time I have spent alone with my thoughts has allowed me to better understand myself. In addition to that, I spent the majority of my childhood spending time with and talking with adults as I was the only kid my age in my neighborhood and the majority

My personality traits are very closely resembles to either to my father’s or with my mother’s personality traits, although mostly to my father’s. I got from my father, the personality traits that are mostly needed to survive in the outer world like having a independent thinking, understanding others point of view etc. and from my mother the caring attitude towards my near and dear ones. My personality also developed from the environment of my society. As in my society moral and cultural values are given at most importance, because of which I am never able to anything which goes against my values. That’s why even if I want to do something against values like drinking or cheating someone, I am not able to

There have been and still are many debates about how a person’s genotype can be a significant factor in the development of your personality, but more relating to criminality. It is very hard to say that your genetic make-up is not a factor in who you become as a person, but I fully believe that the environment also is a factor as well. Having a genetic predisposition does not mean that you are automatically going to inherit whatever trait that was passed down from your parents. Everyone has a choice in who they become as individuals; it all just depends on the environment that you are raised in and the people that are around you when you are growing up. There has been a lot of research on this subject and it has concluded that it is more

Nature combines with nurture to form our personalities. Our genes may predispose us for certain inheritable traits such as diseases like cystic fibrosis or even just irritability, similar to our relatives, but the environment we are raised in has quite a bit to do with how visible certain aspects of our personality become. If a child is always around an environment where there is constant arguing and yelling going on, the child may naturally feel that is the proper thing to do when things do not go as they would like. Likewise, genetics play a role in determining a person's body type, thus you could get your eye color from your mom, and your height from your dad.

The way you look and you physical feature all thing that we get from your parents , things like your eyes and hair colors are things that we in……. from our parents . However talents and personality do not come from your mother or father it come from that environment . a place where you grews up has a big affect on how you talk and how you react or respond things around them.The nature and nurture debate is hard to choose if a person development is influenced by the DNA or is it influenced by life experiences and the environment. Both nature and nurture have a big role on how children develop.

It is possible to tell where one receives his physical traits from. One can look at a person, then at his parents, and see that he gets his brown hair from his father and blue eyes from his mother. There are other traits that people can receive from their parents that are not as easy to see. The idea that people can receive behavioral traits from one’s parents is the study of behavior genetics.

Similarly, one reason Carson’s temperament could be parallel to my own is the concept of passive gene-environment correlation. This is the idea that parents pass on genes to their child and consequently create an environment that enhances these characteristics (Price, Jaffee, 2008). A 2008 study investigating the effects of passive gene-environment correlation defines it as children “inheriting exposure to family environments” (Price, Jaffee, 2008). For instance, if I was

In recent years, I have realized that my father portrays similar characteristics; he is strong, fast-paced, always wants his way and gets frustrated if he cannot achieve his goals, but still understands others’ emotions and tries to make up for his mistakes. However, I realized that such personality traits are not ideal in this, and over the past few years, I have taken to aggressively pursuing my goals, despite being pushed for time. I still do get frustrated when I do not achieve my goals, but I do not worry about how others’ view me and thus, have lost a bit of the ability to sense others’ emotions and feelings. In more general terms, I believe that heredity has definitely played an important role in providing me with strength and aggressiveness to pursue my goals, and influencing my reflexes, energy level and biological rhythm. However, concurrently, many aspects of my personality have been moulded through my own experience and my need to achieve what I aim for.

Some psychological models assert that a proportion of our personality is inborn and permanent (Hollander, 1971), that a psychological core at the center of our personality gives us enduring, inner characteristics. Hans Eysenck (1965) suggests that our motivation and emotion are related to biological differences in brain function and proposed that 75% of our personality is based on genetic influence and 25% on environmental influence. Research by Peter Whybrow (1999) on identical twins separated at birth examined how their different environments shaped their personalities. He found that around 40% of personality should be credited to genetics, with 60% determined by outside factors.