Initial Assumptions About Personality Development

Initial Assumptions About Personality Development

Prior to beginning work on this assignment, carefully read

• Chapter 1 of the course textbook.
• Become Successful by Understanding Peoples Personalities (Lerner, 2013).
• 3 Ways Knowing Your Personality Type Can Help You With Your Career (Stahl, 2017).

Be sure to cite all three sources in your paper.

In addition to the above links, you can utilize the Ashford University Career Services’ Self-Assessment: Learn About Your Personality and Strengthspage to discover more self-assessments available to students. This resource provides multiple self-assessments that will assist in the facilitation of your career and may provide information that will assist in this Week 1 assignment.

According to the American Psychological Association (n.d.) web page Personality,

• Personality refers to individual differences in characteristic patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving. The study of personality focuses on two broad areas: One is understanding individual differences in particular personality characteristics, such as sociability or irritability. The other is understanding how the various parts of a person come together as a whole. (para. 1)

In this course, you will explore seven well-known models that explain the development of personality. You probably already have some ideas and opinions about how personalities develop based on your prior learning and life experiences. This first assignment is meant to provide a baseline of your thinking about personality that you can compare and contrast to the theories we will be studying. In this initial paper, address the following items:

• Explain your view of the impact of genetics and environment on the development of personality.
• Discuss how understanding personality theory can help you to be successful in your career.
• Describe the four tools used for assessing personality outlined in Section 1.5 of your text.
• Discuss how your personality developmental journey impacted these initial assumptions about personality development.

The Initial Assumptions About Personality Development paper

• Must be three to four double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center’s APA Style resource.
• Must include a separate title page with the following:
  • Title of paper
  • Student’s name
  • Course name and number
  • Instructor’s name
  • Date submitted

  For further assistance with the formatting and the title page, refer to APA Formatting for Word 2013.

• Must utilize academic voice. See the Academic Voice resource for additional guidance.
• Must include an introduction and conclusion paragraph. Your introduction paragraph needs to end with a clear thesis statement that indicates the purpose of your paper.
  • For assistance on writing Introductions & Conclusions as well as Writing a Thesis Statement, refer to the Ashford Writing Center resources.
• Must document any information used from sources in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center’s Citing Within Your Paper
• Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. See the Formatting Your References Listresource in the Ashford Writing Center for specifications.

Carefully review the Grading Rubric for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment