Personality

I think Carl Rogers theories kind of make the most sense to me. if you surround yourself with good people, you will probably be a better person because of it. But if you surround yourself with bad people then you will most likely get into trouble. I think some of your personality may come from this, but some you are born with, or create from your home life or environment.

I know I have used the reaction formation defense mechanism. One time when I was young we were jumping off this little cliff and i was scared. But when it finally became my turn, I set my fear aside and it was replaced by bravery. So, I jumped off. Now-a-days though, I jump off huge cliffs and some old bridges, crazy as it seems, I think I'm just being a kid. I am not scared anymore. Another defense mechanism I have used displacement. When a big test is coming up, I often get irritable to my friends if they are talking while I'm trying to study. Little things can set me off, just because I have a big test. But after I make it up to them by bringing pizza and hanging out with them.

The movie that I enjoyed the most was probably Psychology:The Human Experience. There was a part that modeled an over all look at how a persons personality is based on. It is remembered by the model OCEAN. The O is for openness, the C is for conscientsciousness, the E is for extraversion, the A is for agreeableness, and the N is for nuerocism. This is how they can base all peoples personality. But the rest is genetics or environments. That is what decides the rest of our personality.