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Week 4. What Is Your Personality Like?
Objective: Assess your personality and reflect on the factors that contribute towards it.
Original Post Due Wednesday 11/18 by 11:59pm.
You will take a personality test and then reflect on the results. Write up a 500 word (minimum) response to each of the following questions. You can either write your responses to these questions in a separate word document, or enter them directly by clicking submit and typing in your responses.
Take the Big Five Personality Inventory here: https://openpsychometrics.org/tests/IPIP-BFFM/
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Insert a screenshot of your results into your homework.
Write up a summary of what the Big Five Personality Inventory measures.
Report your results for each factor (make sure you interpret your percentiles) and reflect on whether or not you think it is an accurate depiction of your personality.
Reflect on whether and how your scores on each of these factors would potentially be different if you were raised in a rural, isolated city with a very different culture (e.g., such as a Siberian city
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Describe how culture can influence personality traits.
Is our personality strictly influence by our biology or does society and culture and your upbringing play a role. Whatever answer you provide, be sure to include examples and carefully explain your thoughts.
2 Replies Due Friday 11/20 by 11:59pm.
Reflect on your classmate’s response about whether biology or society and culture more strongly influence personality and describe whether you agree or disagree. Be sure to include examples to support your position.
Reply with one additional example of how culture (e.g., religion, tradition, socialization, parenting practices) can impact personality. Be sure to include details.
Be sure to post replies to 2 of your classmates.
