1. Personality is the sum of the typical ways of acting, thinking, and feeling that makes each person unique. Your personality defines you as a person, rather than just a biological conglomeration of organs. An individual’s personality is composed of all the relatively unchanging psychological characteristics that are typical for that person. If people did not have at least some relatively unchanging qualities, we would never know what to expect from them. We know what …showed first 75 words of 2388 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2388 total…in between. There is considerable agreement among trait theorists that these five traits are the basic units of personality, leading to renewed excitement in research on this topic in recent years. It is difficult to evaluate ourselves accurately under any circumstance, but formal personality tests have taken the test to put your answers in context. There are many reasons to be a bit skeptical about personality traits and the tests that measure them. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**