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Cabria, Allyssa Marie C. Understanding the Self

BS PSY 1101 August 27, 2021 Activity 1

Instructions: Below are phrases describing people’s behaviors. Please use the rating scale below to describe how accurately each statement describes you. Describe yourself as you generally are now, not as you wish to be in the future. Describe yourself as you honestly see yourself, in relation to other people you know of the same sex as you are, and roughly your same age. Please read each statement carefully and put a number from 1 to 5 next to it to describe how accurately the statement describes you. Answer the guide questions at the end of the activity. 1 = Very inaccurate 2 = Moderately inaccurate 3 = Neither inaccurate nor accurate 4 = Moderately accurate 5 = Very accurate 1. 1 Am the life of the party (E) 2. 5 Sympathize with others’ feelings (A) 3. 3 Get chores done right away (C) 4. 5 Have frequent mood swings (N) 5. 5 Have a vivid imagination (O) 6. 4 Don’t talk a lot (E) 7. 3 Am not interested in other people’s problems (A) 8. 2 Often forget to put things back in their proper place (C) 9. 5 Am relaxed most of the time (N) 10. 3 Am not interested in abstract ideas (O) 11. 1 Talk to a lot of different people at parties (E) 12. 4 Feel others’ emotions (A) 13. 4 Like order (C) 14. 5 Get upset easily (N) 15. 4 Have difficulty understanding abstract ideas (O) 16. 3 Keep in the background (E) 17. 4 Am not really interested in others (A) 18. 3 Make a mess of things (C) 19. 1 Seldom feel blue (N) 20. 5 Do not have a good imagination (O)

Scoring: The first thing you must do is to reverse the items that are worded in the opposite direction. In order to do this, subtract the number you put for that item from 6. So if you put a 4, for instance, it will become a 2. Cross out the score you put when you took the scale, and put the new number in representing your score subtracted from the number 6. Items to be reversed in this way: 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 Next, you need to add up the scores for each of the five OCEAN scales (including the reversed numbers where relevant). Each OCEAN score will be the sum of four items. Place the sum next to each scale below. 17 11 9 16 16

Openness: Add items 5, 10, 15, 20 Conscientiousness: Add items 3, 8, 13, 18 Extraversion: Add items 1, 6, 11, 16 Agreeableness: Add items 2, 7, 12, 17 Neuroticism: Add items 4, 9,14, 19

Compare your scores to the norms below to see where you stand on each scale. If you are low on a trait, it means you are the opposite of the trait label. For example, low on Extraversion is Introversion, low on Openness is Conventional, and low on Agreeableness is Assertive. 19–20 Extremely High, 17–18 Very High, 14–16 High, 11–13 Neither high nor low; in the middle, 8–10 Low, 6–7 Very low, 4–5 Extremely low

Guide Questions: Answer the following questions in an essay form with a maximum of 300 words. Write your answers in a clean sheet of paper. Take a photo and turn it in using GED 101 group chat via FB (10 points each). 1. How do you describe your scores on Mini IPIP Scale? Do you think the results are accurate? Why? In the category of Openness, I received 17 points, a very high score which indicates that I am more imaginative and open to new ideas. With a Conscientiousness score of 11, I'm somewhere in the middle between being responsible and thoughtless. Extraversion score of 9, a low score and indicating that I am more introverted and like quiet environments. An Agreeableness high score of 16 suggests that I’m empathic. Finally, a score of 16 shows that I have high Neuroticism qualities, which can be used to characterize how anxious I am. Yes, it's accurate because my basis for answering the questions is what I have experienced in real life. The findings of the tests are said to be independent of the person who takes them. With different scenarios I have encountered and have the same situations in the questionnaire, I can tell how much I liked or disliked those situations. 2. Do you think personality changes through time? How? As time goes by, certainly our personalities change and shape us into better people. The changes in the environment, the people you’ve met, situations you are in, and the beliefs you used to believe. For their influence on behavior and continuity across time, personality tends to progress. As Brent Roberts said, our personality is a developmental phenomenon and not just a one-time thing where you’re stuck and can’t get over; it is gradually changing, and as we age we will be more mature. Personality changes us to a better person, psychologically it is called “Maturity Principle”. Generally with the “Maturity Principle”, people tend to become more amiable, more responsible, and emotionally stable as they mature, and their personalities improve as a result. People who are young and immature are unable to control their emotions in stressful situations, but as they get older they’re able to control their emotions more effectively. 3. Discuss how we develop our personality. According to Roberts (2018), current research shows that 30-50 percent of our personality is heritable, giving individuals the mistaken idea that inborn personality is irreversible. More studies reveal “Dominance Heritability,” in which unique combinations of your parents' DNA strands come together to create who you are, implying that a significant part of our personality is heritable yet unpredictable. Other dynamical elements, such as the seeking of environmental reasons for being who you are, might have an impact on one's personality. That means around half of your personality is influenced by things other than genetics, such as how you react to situations and what you believe. Experiences that each person goes through leaves an imprint and helps to progress the personality. The ideas, morals, and values that are imbued by our parents and culture are a big factor to develop who you are and your personality. 4. Differentiate personality from self. The terms "self" and "personality" allude to the distinctive ways in which we define our existence. Although they make similar predictions at times, the "self" and "personality" are two quite different entities. Individual variances in distinctive patterns of thinking, feeling, and behavior are referred to as personality. The consistency and stability in predisposition to respond across time and

situations. While the term "self" relates to an individual's conscious experiences, ideas, thoughts, and feelings about himself or herself. To put it simply, self is a person's internal perspective of themselves. Whereas personality is the resultant of a person's behavior plus mental structure, including that the individual's personality was molded by society. 5. How will you answer the question, “Who am I?”? I am perceiving myself as an individual who really doesn't know who she is. Well, everyone must be confused of who they really are at some point in their life. At this moment, I see myself as a hater of the crowd yet love to help people, a woman who is ready to accept and to learn different things, has overbearing confidence but still questions her own values, and not-so-stable mental health. After I completed the Mini IPIP Scale, I can see “my perceived self” so similar to the results of the test. I am a person who is open to new things yet a little clumsy on learning, and a strict one more on “no-risk” and a very anxious person but an emphatic one. The “me” and the result are very similar and identical....