2007-03-15 07:50:51 · 3 answers · asked by serenbach 2 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
Personality is your unique combination of thought and behavior patterns - how you think and behave - a core aspect of "who you are." It is separate from other mental influences of behavior, such as knowledge, skill, motivation, values, attitudes and character.
2007-03-15 08:04:03 · answer #1 · answered by ? 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Personality is not easily defined. Basically, ‘personality’ refers to our attempts to capture or summarize an individual’s ‘essence’. Personality is person-ality, the science of describing and understanding persons. Clearly, personality is a core area of study for psychology, if not the core. Together with intelligence, the topic of personality constitutes the most significant area of individual difference study.
The word ‘personality’ derives from the Latin word ‘persona’ which means ‘mask’. The study of personality can be understood as the study of ‘masks’ that people wear. These are the personas that people project and display, but also includes the inner parts of psychological experience which we collectively call our ‘self’.
2007-03-15 14:57:25 · answer #2 · answered by Froggy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its basically the individuals traits and individual diferences, how we differ from each other and whats makes us unique....
2007-03-15 15:05:30 · answer #3 · answered by AngeleyesOddette... 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋