Sunday, 18 May 2014

Personality and behavior

An individual's personality is the characteristics and qualities they display that can influence their behavior. Personality can affect the level of energy and the direction that energy is focused towards, in other words personality can affect motivation towards particular behaviors. Different theories of personality look at different ways personality affects an individual's motivation.

personality development

How do i apply the person situation interaction to determine the development of my personality through my life's most significant events?

Temporal Motivation

Adults are motivated by some external factorcs, such as promotions, salaries, and pressure from authority figures. However, internal motivators that help adults solve problems in their life, such as increased job satisfaction, self-esteem, quality of life, and the opportunity to self-actualize, tend to be more powerful motivators

ripe old age

In contrast to how living to a "ripe old age" is viewed in industrial societies, how did the people of colonial America view aging?

birth rate


Although women are having children at a later time in life, more married women give birth today than did twenty years ago.