Question

(1) Describe the role of brain structures, neurochemistry, and genetics in the development of personality.

(2) How much do you believe that our personality is shaped by biology? Defined your position with one (1) fact.

Answer 1

• 2.Personality is a key part of every single one of us, it determines our moods, our behaviours, how we interact with each other and the decisions we make. Effectively, our personalities make us who we are.
• Personality is shaped up by biology but we cannot disregard the importance of environmental factors as well.Both combined together influence the development of personality. Biological components strongly determine our physical characteristics such as eye color, height, hair color, body type, and general looks. Even if biology plays no direct role in our personality, the way we look certainly affects how we see ourselves and how others interact with us. This indirect affect does, at minimum, play a role in how we develop and who we are as adults.
• If our personality was influenced solely by nature, then we would have inherited genes from our ancestors that influence how our personality is shaped. It’s just the same as how we inherited physical factors such as our eye or hair colour from previous generations, we also could inherit our internal drive and spur that influences our behaviours.
• Overall, the idea that our personality is caused by our genetic makeup is quite a believable one. Often, babies who are relaxed and ‘easy going’ tend to become adults who are equally as laid back and easy going.
• However, when arguing that our personalities are developed by our genetics, a factor that is out of our control, it raises issues. If our personalities are really caused by our genetics, then can we be held accountable for anything we ever do?So, it is important to consider the opposing factor - our environment.
• Our environment does play a crucial part in our life; some people are rich, some people are poor.It is often argued that our personality is in fact influenced more so by our environment than by our genetics. Much of our personality is based on the adaptation of our abilities, cognitive abilities and social interests. This adaptability that shapes and forms us can only be learnt from the interaction with our environment.
• Our personalities, and humans in general, are too complicated to be whittled down to one specific cause and we will be influenced by many aspects of ourself and our environment. We are much too complicated to be one of the other. So,biology does influence our personality,but lesser than the environment we are brought up,or rather I would say,the genetic influence would only be important when it works in combination with the environment,to develop our personality.
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