Personality Psychology

Negative View, Positive View, Neither View, and Human Diversity View

Humans are born evil or have a tendency to distort facts and truth. Humans tend to cover up their failings.

Humans mean to do well and are inherently good, if given the right circumstances. Humans seek growth, but events can block our path, which leads to neggative behavior

Humans have no control over destiny becase of genetics or that environment controls behavior

Human race is made up of positive and negative people who have different motives and who make a serises of decisions that can change their value in life.

Optimistic- significat changes in personality and behavior can occur throughout the course of a lifetime

Pessimistic- Personality and behavior are essentially stable and unchanging

Proactivity - acting on their initiative rather than simply reacting

Reactivity - reacting to stimuli from the outside world

Uniqueness- Each individual is unique and cannot be compared to others

Universality - people are basically very similar

Heredity- inherited and inborn characteristics influence human behavior 

Environment- factors in the environment influences human behavior

Freedom- control over their behaviors and understand the motives behind them

Determinism- determined by internal or external forces over which individuals have little, if any control